Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Just popped home to the apartment to pick up some dictionaries and 
> stuff. Checked the mailbox on the way out to find that I received a new 
> updated guide to Okazaki's ultra-intrusive & meiwaku recycling "system".
> 
> It has my apartment number written on it, and the title is "Mais 
> Reciclagem, Menos Lixo no Seculo 21 - Guia Oficial". On the front 
> cover, no less a man than Tokugawa Ieyasu himself informs us that
> "Separar por tipos e a melhor maneira de reduzir o lixo". 
> I checked the mailboxes of 
> the two other gaigins living in the 8 apartment block and they 
> likewise received Portuguese (despite being American and Chinese 
> respectively). 

I feel avenged now.

On an unrelated note, I used to be amazed at how many Japanese
actually know that Brazilians speak Portuguese. The Chinese, don´t
seem to know what is Portuguese or Portugal.

Rafael Caetano