Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:19:55 -0500, Kevin Gowen
> <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson wrote:
>>
>>>Taken from a post to that email group that pre-emptively banned our Mr
>>>Cash (I'm still jealous of you for that one!):
>>>
>>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/communityinjapan/message/5543
>>>
>>>If you're not a member, he says about a meeting being held:
>>>
>>>    Please bring a native speaker, as proceedings will likely be
>>>    in Japanese
>>>
>>>Isn't he becoming just a little _too_ Japanese?
>>
>>I was surprised to learn there is a city in Mie named "Zu".
> 
> 
> I wondered what you meant by that, then I remembered there's a city
> called Tsu, but surely he couldn't have got that wrong, as it's a Joyo
> reading for that kanji...
> 
> I wonder who the native speaker that he's bringing is?

I used to live about 20 minutes south of Tsu. The city has a small claim 
to fame as having the shortest station name in Japan.

- Kevin