On 7 Jan 2004 23:50:09 -0800, anotherfool@hotmail.com (another fool)
wrote:

>Sorry but for someone with a Government Bachelors and International
>Relations and Pacific Studies Masters Degree it hardely seems he is
>qualified to be an English Professor - much less a tenured one (of
>course what else could you do with a Government Undergrad and IRPS
>Masters?).  I mean his total college English education would be the 2
>undergrad courses anyone with a degree from a US school had to take.

Check some of his published writings out - his English is pretty
bloody dreadful; grammar, vocabulary and overall forming an argument
are about the level of an average high schooler.

But, I suppose it just reinforces the stereotype that all Japanese
can't write proper English what like us does.

Ken