On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:29:11 GMT, "ifignow" <ifignow@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>As the Japan Times says, 5% of all marriages in Japan are now international,
>while 1.4% of Japan's population is non-Japanese:
>
>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040208a3.htm
>
>This doesn't count the numbers of Japanese women who move out of Japan and
>marry elsewhere.
>
>At what point will the numbers of mixed or emigrant Japanese outnumber
>"pure" Japanese?  When today's young Japanese die, will their graves be
>placed on top of department store roofs, next to blinking neon lights?  Will
>foreign children playing tag knock over the gravestones?
>In the future, will Buddha statues in Japan have pierced noses and afro
>hair? Maybe pure Japanese will live only on isolated islands, where
>pot-bellied babies have flies buzzing around their eyes.

Thanks for posting. I've now added you to my kill-filter with the rest
of the most annoying loudmouths. 

I think that will about do it for now. This guy was the queen of
spades in my deck of trolls.