On Mar 10, 10:59 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> > I recently met a well known author/ journalist who after living and
> > working in Tokyo for 22 years hasn't learned the word for "plate"
> > yet...
> >http://www.unsustainable.org
>
> Hey, no fair trying to bat the easy pitches out of the ballpark.  Try a
> hard one next time.  Every time he shows up on the Japan Research NG it
> seems as though everybody lines up to kick him in the head.  The mere
> mention of his name or the names of any of his books is enough to set of
> peals of laughter.

Where is this Japan Research ng? Do I need a news server for it?

I hadn't met him before and haven't read any of his books. Apart from
a more or less complete absence of language skills he seemed like a
quite normal old fella. The revision history of his wikipedia entry is
umm, interesting.