From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Date: 16 Nov 92 00:51:30 GMT
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Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

In article <BxILC7.7GK@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov
   (Michiaki Masuda) writes:

 =}In article <HARKCOM.92Nov10133517@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp> harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:
 =}>In article <Bx7wD5.EzC@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov
 =}>   (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
 =}
 =}> =}   Probably, the local police knows only little more than you and I do.
 =}> =}The person who knows best cannot talk any longer.
 =}
 =}>   That's not true.  "One of the people who knows best can no longer
 =}>talk" would have been better.  Or do you feel that since he's the only
 =}>Japanese involved that he's the only relieable witness?
 =}
 =}   Hunh? I was responding to the post that mentioned the mentality of the
 =}Japanese student when he visited Mr. Peairs's house? He is the person who 
 =}knew best whether he was understanding Mr. Peairs was aiming at him
 =}with a real gun or a toy gun, how he understood Mr. Peairs's word,
 =}"Freeze!", and why he moved when he was told to freeze.

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From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Date: 5 Nov 92 00:36:41 GMT
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

In article <1992Nov4.181230.20503@adobe.com> pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <Bx6qtJ.L5z@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov4.071322.19743@adobe.com> pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>>.....
>>>Since you guys are so eager to hang the guy without a trial, I
>>>thought it only fair to discuss the aspects you weren't considering.

>>  Wasn't it you that were eager to conclude that the Japanese student
>>was shot to death deservingly because he appeared to be trying to break in
>>repeatedly?

>Hattori did try to get in repeatedly. Front door and side door.

   Although my English vocabulary may not be good enough, but it seems
to me that the word "twice" is more appropriate than "repeatedly" unless
you intend to give a biased impression.

>Based on the response of the local police who know a lot more about
>tactics and the incident than you do, my explanation seems much
>more plausible.

   Probably, the local police knows only little more than you and I do.
The person who knows best cannot talk any longer.

Michiaki Masuda
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   The comment you were replying to was not refering to Hattori's state
of mind but to "what happened" in general.  Since you claim that you were
refering to Hattori's mental state then I apologize for the
misunderstanding.  Might I also suggest that you be more explicit in your
comments to avoid such misunderstandings (I tried to read your mind, but by
the time your article arrived here you were thinking about something else :)

 =}   I wonder why you suspected my feeling that way. Is that because I am
 =}Japanese?

   No, it is because your comments appear to say that Hattori was the one
who new best what happened.  Even if you were a caucasian I would question
such an obviously twisted opinion.

 =}Or are you somehow trying to label me as a racist by making 
 =}whatever biased distortion and deletion that you can make as you did
 =}in another posting?

   If you can find such a post then please remind me of it as I don't
recall ever having made "biased distortion and deletion" of any post.
If you can't find such a post then I expect an apology for your sick
(and incorrect) accusation...
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