Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Kevin Gowen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: It's a Miracle! Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:34:22 -0400 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2t3f0uF1qalbmU8@uni-berlin.de> References: <73fde4f0.0410110828.44ec0475@posting.google.com> <416B533F.9040200@yahoo.com> <73fde4f0.0410121035.4af12de8@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 9dMfR36+cJ+mEPQEjeGPEQsgvJNI65/HiL2C1+k/Zu41KzVddl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <73fde4f0.0410121035.4af12de8@posting.google.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:19373 John W. wrote: > Rodney Webster wrote in message news:... > >>In article <416B533F.9040200@yahoo.com>, >> "John W." wrote: >> >> >>>I don't; my mother has MS, and never visited me in Japan and if I lived >>>there today probably never would; being partially handicapped in Japan >>>is probably worse than being totally bound to a wheelchair. Somehow I >>>don't think that young lady had any such affliction, though I certainly >>>hate to assume. At least they could have put her in a different outfit. >> >>Or you could just read the text next to the photos and see that one >>woman suggests to the other that she sits in the wheelchair so that she >>can experience for herself how much easier it is with wider halls. >> >>Nowhere in the page is it even implied that the woman has a disability. > > > Thank you for pointing that out. I had absolutely *no* idea. Just start studying Japanese. You could try reading manga, for example. - Kevin