On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:01:41 +0900, "John R. Yamamoto-Wilson"
<john@rarebooksinjapan.org> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>Ben Bullock wrote:
>
>> See www.debito.org for an overview of the fuss. The Japanese in
>> those pages (click on the thumbnails) is legible but only just,
>> if you really want to read that crap.
>
>Just out of interest, why do so many non-Japanese routinely pour scorn 
>on this guy?

Because Walter Mitty is better as a film character than as a real-life
human being and because certain of his antics are an embarrassment.
Also, I don't feel the need to have a "white leader" in Japan in the
way that the African-American community has "black leaders" (Jackson,
Sharpton, etc).




--

Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College