"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message

> If you have been watching TV carefully you'd see that these returnees have
> become more and
> more Japanese after they returned including fluency of speech, mannerisms,
> appearance, etc.

That's precisely because I didn't notice that. I've just heard journalists
and politicians repeating it.
I have asked dozens of Japanese friends to re-listen the interviews to see
"hints" of living abroad or loss of naturalness of regional accent. Well
strangely, the 5 ones were too perfect since the second week back in Japan.
But well, I cannot tell how they achieve that. It's just particularly
strange for the 2 housewives that hidded to their children that they were
Japanese.

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