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Article #234Re: How to survive in Japan [English]
From: Sumio Araki
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 09:22
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 09:22
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In article <CLAUDE.92Sep8145530@tokyo.trc.mew.mei.co.jp> claude@trc.mew.mei.co.jp (Claude Huss) writes: |It's not just like the same thing as foreigners without a re-entry visa |cannot use "Japanese" counters. I'm saying that because I was *really* |surprised when I came from my last business trip and the person in |"Foreigner" counter said:" Hey! Why don't you use the japanese counter?". |Then I said:"Simple, I"m not japanese", he said: "No.No. If you have a |re-entry visa you can go there". Then I was wondering why the japanese |didn't write something like:"Japanese and residents" instead that |stupid "japanese" only.... :-) :-) (Two :-) just in case...) | I completely understand the situation. In Japan, we often face incorrect descriptions like this case (Of cource in Japanese). I suppose, as Japanese community is very suitable for "Ishin-denshin", almost all of Japanese don't care to explain exactly. My under- standing is as same as yours. -:) -- $@9SLZ=cIW(J(Sumio Araki) araki@sfc.keio.ac.jp $@7DXf5A(J$@=NBg3X>EFnF#Bt%-%c%s%Q%9%a%G%#%"%;%s%?!<(J $@")(J252 $@F#Bt;T1sF#(J5322$@!!(J Tel: 0466-47-5111 ex2514 or 0466-47-5000-2514 ($@$?$@$7%H!<%s2s@~(J) Fax: 0466-47-5043
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Newsgroups: fj.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!sh.wide!sfc-keio-news!araki From: araki@sfc.keio.ac.jp (Sumio Araki) Subject: Re: How to survive in Japan [English] In-Reply-To: claude@trc.mew.mei.co.jp's message of 8 Sep 92 05:55:30 GMT Message-ID: <ARAKI.92Sep8182249@cs1.sfc.keio.ac.jp> Sender: news@sfc.keio.ac.jp Nntp-Posting-Host: cs1.sfc.keio.ac.jp Organization: Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus. References: <CLAUDE.92Sep8124500@tokyo.trc.mew.mei.co.jp> <ARAKI.92Sep8135715@cs1.sfc.keio.ac.jp> <CLAUDE.92Sep8145530@tokyo.trc.mew.mei.co.jp> Distribution: fj Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:22:49 GMT Lines: 24