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From: santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: JIS->graphics
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:21:25 GMT
Organization: KIT Iizuka, AI Dept, JAPAN.


In article <17974@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez000345@othello.ucdavis.edu writes:

>Hello:
>
>I am looking for a IBM program to convert JIS code into a graphics
>file so it can be sent over a fax modem.  Does anyone happen to know
>of such a beast?  Thanks for your time !  Doomo sumimasen !

Rafael the Font Megalomaniac is just finishing one, machine-independent
(or I hope so) that get a file in JIS and put to stdout the ppm
file of it. You will need one of the three fonts jis24, jis32 or jis48
which are in the anonymous ftp "ftp.funet.fi" directory 
/pub/culture/japan/fonts and something else to change the ppm format
in another you want. Since the ppm format is very simple I guess you will 
have no trouble on that.

Since I am just starting, I would really appreciate if somebody
knows another better way to make this.
Another welcome information: If it works, maybe somebody likes it
(besides me). Where can I post the font to it ? 

Rafael.
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: kanji of the day ?48
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:43:05 GMT

luke@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Luke) writes:

>In article <jwb.718354466@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:
>>stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE writes:

>>>KANJI OF THE DAY # 48

>>TOUroku		registration (vs), register, entry, record

>And who could live without
>Gaikokujin Touroku Shoumeisho	Alien Registration Card

Actually it *is* in edict; I balked at keying in all that romaji.

-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au  
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
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Original recipient: sdwyer @ NPIH
Original  subject:        Nihonjin In American Films


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Chris--I think you''re right about the portrayal of Japanese in American
films and TV. I've observed that even in purportedly "enlightened" television
shows like "thirtysomething" and """Twin Peaks,"" Japanese characters are
portrayed either as buffoons or evil manipulators. (Not to mention books like
Rising Sun, and all the paperback thrillers about corporate ninja, etc.)
However, my experience in Japan was that Japanese film and TV bow to no one
in their racist portrayals of foreigners. One good example would be the
segment of Morita's "Bakayaro" about the salaryman who's being transferred to
the US. I'm sure other people on the list will have thoughts on this. Good
luck.
From: ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: kermit with coding translation
Date: 15 Oct 1992 17:15:43 GMT
Organization: Centre for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sheffield
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jp1ek@sunc.shef.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: athena.berkeley.edu

a recent item in comp.protocals.kermit described a new version of
mskermit (3.12 beta) with built-in translation among various kanji
coding schemes.
-- 
earl h. kinmonth, centre for japanese studies, university of sheffield,
sheffield, england s10 2tn  jp1ek@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: harry@issun1.kfk.de (Harald Kucharek)
Subject: Sorting japanese strings
Reply-To: harry@issun1.kfk.de
Organization: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 08:30:40 GMT

Konnichi-wa minna-san!

I am working at a program that typesets Jim Breen's edict as a kanji dictionary
with permuted index (nothing commercial, just for my own pleasure).
I spent some time developing an algorithm for sorting
japanese strings in the order the appear in a usual dictionary. It works,
but I am not very satiesfied with it, because it is not very straightforward.

My question: Is there somewhere a standard algorithmn for sorting japanese strings
(There must be at least one, I am very sure) in dictionary order.
To make the point clear: I don't mean strings only composed of kana, I mean strings
containing the usual mixture of kanji and kana.

Any hint will be welcome. Thank you.

    Harald Kucharek ($B>.?M(J), Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe, IDT
		7514 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
         Internet: harry@issun1.kfk.de Phone: +49 7247 825706 




Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &)
Subject: Re: WAR ALERT! (Never mind my silly question - Rafael)
Organization: KIT Iizuka, AI Dept, JAPAN.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:20:25 GMT

In article <jwb.718948361@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

>santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &) writes:
>
>>Uh, sorry, Prof. Harkcom, but why you wrote "kanzi" instead of "kanji" ?
>>Just curious...
>
>Aaaaaahhhhh! No, Rafael, no! Don't ask that question!
>
>OK, folks, now lets be calm. Let's take a deep breath, and in as
>dispassionate and objective a fashion as possible explain to Senhor
>Santos the difference between Kunrei and Hepburn romanization, but
>p l e a s e  don't let the dreaded HOLY ROMANIZATION WAR break out 
>again.

Ok, I've got it :-)
If somebody wants to post a "just for your information" about 
romanization systems, it will be welcome, since I never saw
"kanzi" written before.
No HOLY ROMANIZATION WAR, please :-)


Rafael.
From: santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Answer to Nihongo dictionary: suggestions .
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:09:33 GMT
	<SANTOS.92Oct6204130@melon.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
	<39086@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
Organization: KIT Iizuka, AI Dept, JAPAN.

In article <39086@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:

>What about a Japanese-English dictionary?  I would think this is
>a more useful device, yet I haven't seen any good ones...  Lots
>of E-J dictionaries though (which I never use).

Here it goes, I like it very much...

Takahashi's Pocket Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary
Taiseido (publisher ?)
ISBN 4-88463-061-0
4430 yens (I think)

24000 words, in alphabetical order, each word is written in Romaji,
hiragana/katakana and Kanji, with LOTS of examples.

Have fun,

Rafael.
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: kanji of the day ?50
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:10:58 GMT

stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE writes:

>KANJI OF THE DAY # 50

>JIS      = 2828 (serial number)

hex 3f28

>  Kunyomi: fu(reru) - to touch, to feel, to hit, to strike,
>                      to mention; to conflict with, to proclaim,
>                      to be contrary to
>           fu(re)   - touch, contact

Also sawa as in teZAWAri - feel, touch


>Compounds:

>SHOKUshu   -  feeler, tentacle
>FUre-komu  -  to announce, to protend to be, to pass off for, to pose as

New for edict

also 

FUre-au		to come into contact with, to touch (each other)
SHOKUbai	catalyst
kanSHOKU	sense of touch, feeling, sensation
se'SHOKU	touch (vs), contact
teiSHOKU	collision (vs), confliction
hadaZAWAri	touch, feel
maeBUre		harbinger

-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au
From: htanabe@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Hisaharu Tanabe)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Ryoma Sakamoto
Keywords: book japan history japanese
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:59:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: ponder.htanabe.718988392
Organization: University of North Texas

I'm looking for a book about Ryoma Sakamoto written in English. Anybody
who has any idea, please E-Mail me.

Thanks in advance.

Hisaharu
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: radikkio@sissa.it
Subject: Heian Alphabet
Organization: Intnl School for Adv Studies
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:11:59 GMT

	Hi netters,

	I've just began to read "Hanazakari no mori" of Yukio Mishima (it's 
translated in Italian and they say it's absolutely the first translation).
	There are five novels written in the early years of Mishima's life 
(1940-43). The fourth of these novels, entitled "Yoyo ni nikosan", has 
something curious. There are 27 chapters and each of them is named with a 
sign coming from the Heian alphabet (First is "i", second is "ro", then 
"ha", "ni", "ho", etc.).Is there a particular meaning? Or it is just a 
strange way to name the chapters of a book?

	Thanks a lot,  Riccardo.



	*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*
				Riccardo IANCER

RADIKKIO@TSMI19.SISSA.IT	38028::RADIKKIO		RADIKKIO@ITSSISSA
INTERNET			DECNET			BITNET
From: dr@ITE.OTA.GOV
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Nihonjin In American Films
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:24:00 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

Chris--I think you''re right about the portrayal of Japanese in American
films and TV. I've observed that even in purportedly "enlightened" television
shows like "thirtysomething" and """Twin Peaks,"" Japanese characters are
portrayed either as buffoons or evil manipulators. (Not to mention books like
Rising Sun, and all the paperback thrillers about corporate ninja, etc.)
However, my experience in Japan was that Japanese film and TV bow to no one
in their racist portrayals of foreigners. One good example would be the
segment of Morita's "Bakayaro" about the salaryman who's being transferred to
the US. I'm sure other people on the list will have thoughts on this. Good
luck.
From: djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: kanji of the day ?48
Date: 11 Oct 92 01:18:28 GMT
Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego

>>anyone who gets off on individual kanji will NOT learn to READ
>>japanese well, perhaps not even learn to read it all.

Well, on the other extreme, suppose all you learn are compounds and
such.  Then if you run across a word you have never seen before, you
are clueless, because you have not learned what the individual kanji
mean.  At least some effort must be expended learning individual kanji
in order to master reading.  (I suppose there's the possibility that
it all comes to you in your subconscious)  But rather than say
that learning individual kanji is bad, you should say that learning
individual kanji without also reading is bad.
-- 
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
    "I wonder what's taking Guybrush so long..."
From: djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Answer to Nihongo dictionary: suggestions .
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:00:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.39385
Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego

>>Any that aren't romanized?
>
>I did not get the meaning of the question.

Well, I meant sorted via kana.  The problem I have with my pocket
one is that the sorting order is just plain wierd (but normal
for English perhaps).  For example, "o" and "ou" are next to
each other, since they are romanized as "o" and "o" w/bar over it.


I've also noted a general lack of Japanese dictionary varieties
on standard bookstores.  There may be 20 types of German
dictionaries, 6 Korean, etc., but in the Japanese section,
you have Nelson's (maybe) and a mini-pocket one...
-- 
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu  --  Toy cows in Africa
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,soc.culture.japan
From: JFT@NCCIBM1.BITNET ("JFT@NCCIBM1.BITNET")
Subject: Re: Japanese speech contest
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:09:00 GMT

Hi all,

  Does anyone know the name of the company that puts on a
Jobfair for Japanese BUsinesses in the LA area.  You call
a phone # and they send you a card, you send that back
with some info about yourself and then they call you on
the phone for an interview in Japanese.  If you speak well
enough then they will pay your airfare to the Jobfair.  Does
anyone have the companies name and phone #?

  Thanks in advance!  :-)
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Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: CM11976@SWTEXAS.BITNET
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:26:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about Japanese in American
films.  I found them all very interesting and would enjoy hearing more
responses; however...

 (From Y. Asano)
>Firstly, I would rather like you to discuss this in soc.culture.japan, not in
>this group.  I have a lot of mails through this group but I don't like to be
>bothered by this kind of discussion.

Well, I certainly don't want to bother anyone with this.
I would be more than happy to take it up on soc.culture.japan if, perhaps,
someone would be so kind as tell me how someone on a VMS/VAX Bitnet system can
access soc.culture.japan.  I've been trying to do this for the last few months
but haven't been able to, so thanks a lot.

As I said originally, if you guys don't want to discuss this here (which it
appears you don't) then let's just drop it (I guess most of you can talk about
it on soc.culture.japan if you want).  If anyone _is_ still interested in
discussing it, I would very much enjoy hearing from you at my private e-mail
address (listed below).  Sorry to increase your mail with this.

Chris Maka

cm11976@swtexas.bitnet
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: KSHALT@KRSNUCC1.BITNET (Shim)
Subject: (none)
X-Unparsable-Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11: 10:00 EXP
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:17:44 GMT

Dear Sir,

I'd like to know how to subscribe to the listserv 'NIHONGO'.
Please let me know it. Thank you.

Shim
From: kat@junska.UUCP (kat@junska.uucp)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: kanji of the day ?48
Date: 11 Oct 92 06:43:32 GMT
Reply-To: kat@junska.UUCP (kat@junska.uucp)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3



In article <1b51bjINN69r@agate.berkeley.edu> (sci.lang.japan),
ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
> i imagine that what i am going to say next will start a flame
> war, but so be it.
> 

A few years ago, someone else started doing K.O.T.D. but it's
been beaten to death instantaneously by similar comments and
flames.

> anyone who gets off on individual kanji will NOT learn to READ
> japanese well, perhaps not even learn to read it all.

As a nipponjin, I second that. There's a lot of other (trans:
better) methods of learning nihongo... they maybe intense but
may present themselves to be more enjoyable and productive in
the end. But then, a little learning is a hell of a lot better
than no learning, IMHO, and if these K.O.T.D. mailings are
actually helping some people (beginners, for example), then why
complain.
From: palm@NB.ROCKWELL.COM (Steve [kiwin] Palm)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: corporate literature
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:28:48 GMT

** > "Henry" == Henry Robertson <robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu> 

Henry> ... i came across one particularly striking one in the 1991
Henry> Matsushita pamphlet...

I assume this was Matsushita Electric Works, not MEI.  I spent 2 years
at MEW and can attest that they can have a warped perception.

Henry> on the section about indoor AV systems, there was a
Henry> blond-haired couple in a tub together watching TV in the
Henry> bathroom, while their son doused himself with water in frot of
Henry> the TV screen.  Now, just how many typical American families
Henry> have TV's mounted on the walls of their bathrooms, and out of
Henry> those how many American families take baths together????  

What you are seeing is a melding of Japanese perception of Americans
with Japanese culture. In Japan, taking baths with family members (but
usually not husband-wife) is very common.
Also maybe people don't watch TV in their bathroom now, but they might
in the future. (If properly brainwashed by slick advertising.)

Henry> Maybe I'm not up on the newest Southern-California trend, since
Henry> after all this is Northern California, where blondes may dye
Henry> their hair black, green, or purple.

Ummm... they do that in So. Cal. too.

Henry> Well, another good one was on the automated restaurant table
Henry> with a retractable platform that descends from the ceiling; it
Henry> puts your dishes away & serves you the next course (and a
Henry> bouqet of flowers inbetween courses).  Again, is this a new
Henry> Southern California thing, or am I missing a trend in formal
Henry> Japanese cuisine, given the labor shortage of waiters?

There has been a trend in Japan to have all kinds of high tech appliances
in the home. MEW has been exploiting and promoting it heavily.
MEW also markets such items as automatic toilets that do such
things as warm the seat for you, water blast you clean, and then air dry.

If you are ever in Osaka, you can tour MEW's house of the future
which is full of these gadgets.

- kiwin
-----
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Rockwell International - Digital Communications Division     COMNET: 930-8862
Japan Engineering Design Center                          FAX: +81-3-3263-0639
      palm@nb.rockwell.com       palm@cs.cmu.edu           NIHON::PALM
From: santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &)
Subject: Re: Answer to Nihongo dictionary: suggestions .
Organization: KIT Iizuka, AI Dept, JAPAN.
	<39086@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
	<SANTOS.92Oct8190933@melon.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
	<39194@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:12:26 GMT

In article <39194@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:

>>Takahashi's Pocket Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary
>
>Any that aren't romanized?

I did not get the meaning of the question. This dictionary is romanized
to get the main entries in alphabetical order, but it have the hiragana 
AND kanji for each entry and examples.

Anybody out there wants a GIF of a scanned page to see ? I will not
post unless somebody request.

Rafael.
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: SUHXNWA@IUP.BITNET
Subject: Kanji to Kana(s)
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:42:00 GMT

Hello.  I'm doing a study on how hiragana and katakana were derived from the
Kanji system.  I am still in the Lit. review stage, and would like to expand my
lit. base.  If anyone has any possible sources (including youself), plaese let
me know either via the list or personally (see below).  Thanks in advance,

David W. McFarland, III   " Dusty "
Internet: SUHXNWA@GROVE.IUP.EDU
  Bitnet: SUHXNWA@IUP.BITNET
From: buex93d@rwb.urc.tue.nl (Richard Braeken)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Student Societies In Japan ?
Date: 16 Oct 92 11:06:06 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands


Hello there,

My name is Richard Braeken and I'm organizing a study tour to Japan with
some friends. We are students of the Technical University of Eindhoven
(The Netherlands) and we organize this study tour for the students of
the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing Science. We want to go to Japan
in April 1993 where we want to visit the region of the following city's :
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagasaki and Fukuoka. 

Our group consists of 24 students and 2 professors.
When we are in Japan we want to visit important and leading companies
which are working on our subjects, but also we want to visit
universities.

Besides this, we also want to meet japanese students. 

My question to you is: "Are there student societies?"
When there are, can you give us adresses.

Thank you very much.


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From: tozaki@math.keio.ac.jp (Hidekazu TOZAKI)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Q: On Koji-n on CD-ROM for Mac
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:57:11 GMT
	<TOZAKI.92Oct15052436@amber.math.keio.ac.jp>
Organization: Faculty of Sci. and Tech., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan.

In article <TOZAKI.92Oct15052436@amber.math.keio.ac.jp> tozaki@math.keio.ac.jp (Hidekazu TOZAKI) writes:
 |  We hear *new* CD-ROM version of Kojien (4th Edition) will be
 |published in 10-Dec-92 from Iwanami Shoten. I'll post a detail, if I
 |could.

  Here's quotes from catalogue of Iwanami Shoten.

Kojien 4th ed. CD-ROM version

Full word entries 220,000 ; Full figures 2,500; Birdsongs 84; Samples
of color 234; tables 100

Applicable for: Fujitsu OASYS, FM-TOWNS; NEC PC-9800; Macintosh etc.

Price: 24,000 yen (+3% tex)

--
Hidekazu TOZAKI
Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.
E-mail: tozaki@nak.math.keio.ac.jp
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject: Hepburn & kunrei romanization
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Organization: University of Washington
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:30:38 GMT

If you have an easier time at interpreting Japanese in Hepburn than in
kunrei-shiki, or if you have an easier time at interpreting Japanese in
kunrei-shiki than in Hepburn, then your study of Japanese has not progressed
very far.

You should be equally capable in both systems, as well as being able to handle
the occasional curve ball (e.g. `jya') that native Japanese will throw your
way in actual real-life use (as opposed to ivory-tower academia).

You should be equally capable of handling all the forms of long vowels:
 . non-indication, such as is used in most English-language texts that print
   `Tokyo' for the name of Japan's capital
 . macrons (`To^kyo^' although the macron belongs *over* the vowel instead of
   following it), which are the official forms for Hepburn *and* kunrei-shiki
 . vowel-doubling without regard to pronunciation and kana values (`Tookyoo')
 . vowel-doubling following kana/pronunciation (`Toukyou')
[Note: in the speech of some native speakers there is a difference between the
 `ou' and `oo', as well as the `ei' and `ee' sound.  In others, the difference
 is imperceptable.  Japanese teachers in the US try to make their students
 believe that it is always imperceptable.]

You should be equally capable of handling multiple forms of writing particles:
 . wa for reference, e for direction, o for object
 . ha for reference, he for direction, wo for object

None of these should trip you up or in any way confuse you.  You should be
able to handle mixing of conventions in the same sentence or even in the same
word.

Which system you use for writing is a matter of personal choice.  I suggest
that you try to stay within the bounds of known usage and not mix conventions
excessively.  My preference is for Hepburn, macrons (secondarily
vowel-doubling following kana), and ha/he/wo for particles.  Your mileage may
vary.

Leave the `your romanization system chomps doggie doo-doo' vs `oh yeah?  Well
your romanization gobbles puppy poop' arguments to the tenured professors who
have nothing better to do with their time.  They certainly don't teach; it's
beneath their dignity.  If you are going to use Japanese in any practical way,
you have to be able to handle whatever gets tossed at you.  The kunrei-shiki
bigot, like his cousin the Hepburn bigot, is in form an unpleasant surprise
when faced with the reality in Japan.