The 2-Belo wrote:
> UPI A 7N DA fj.life.in-japan, Mon, 19 May 2008 11:50:49 +0900 (UPI)... THREE
> SHOTS WERE FIRED AT CL'S MOTORCADE TODAY IN DOWNTOWN fj.life.in-japan... JT 1234
> PCS
> 
>> maninmelb45@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Ford Files (www.fordfiles.com) is a collection of 10 years worth of
>>> experiences of life in Japan.  From life in the country to working in
>>> dynamic Tokyo if you're thinking of going then give the fordfiles a
>>> look!  It's a new site and there are just a few articles up at the
>>> moment, but it's honest and if there is something you would like to
>>> read then just let me know.
>>>
>>> The Ford Files
>> I went.  I saw.  The chorus of the "Lion King" by Amateur Transplants 
>> (1) would be appropriate background music for this site.
> 
> "At the age of 23, straight out of university and with a bank loan to get there,
> I forged my way into Japanese society.  10 years later,  I have worked in some
> of the largest companies in Japan, married a Japanese national and have lived
> the life of a salaryman."

Imagine that.  A bank loan.  When I got out of college, I would have 
been locked in a psychiatric ward for even /asking/ for a loan to go to 
Japan.  That would have been after I laughed at the bank loan officer 
when he asked me which city in Hong Kong was Japan and how long would it 
take for the Pan-Am Clipper to get there ... and wasn't I afraid of 
ninjas.

A bank loan .... hmmmm .....

> Rather than "Lion King", I sort of imagined the score of the movie _Apollo 13_
> here, along with Walter Cronkite's stirring commentary. "...the most hazardous
> and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." I mean, it
> can only be appropriate for a guy who treats his life in Japan as akin to that
> of landing on the moon.

Oh, man, not Walter Cronkite.

Walter was, like, one of my heroes when I was growing up.  He only told 
the truth.  The man NEVER lied for ANYONE.  Him and Chet and David, but 
they were on ABC and the ABC affiliates in those days were still a 
little on the tenuous side and CBS had Ed Sullivan and the Smothers 
Brothers.  I remember him doing JFK's funeral as well as a bunch of the 
Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo launches.  His interviews with John Glenn 
and Wally Schirra made me want to be an astronaut.

Maybe we could loan this guy Geraldo Rivera.  I understand he's still 
around.

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CL