Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> Ernest Schaal wrote:
> 
>> I am not impressed by your argument that, if you don't see it, it
>> doesn't exist.
> 
> It is an argument I often get from Japanese: the old, I don't believe
> it, because I didn't see it. This could apply to any problem in
> Japan: heavy metals in seafood products, the nuclear industry, mad
> cow disease, discrimination, Japanese war atrocities. Even aging
> women still without jobs will deny the existence of sexual
> discrimination in job hunting. Damn. 
> 
> So I ask Japanese if they saw the A Bombing. I ask them if they saw
> humans descend from apes. I ask if they have ever seen Koizumi or the
> Emperor in person. Strangely, none of them have.

I saw Koizumi in person. It was a big ripoff.

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"The US economy accounts for about one-third of global GDP-greater than
the next four countries combined (Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom
and France)."  
- "Advancing the National Interest: Australia's Foreign and Trade
Policy White Paper", Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade