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Found the following on scjm

>Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 18:04:44 +0900 (JST)
>From: Tony Laszlo <laszlo@gol.com>
>Subject: Re: [ISSHO] Strange English sticker on Pepsi bottles

>On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

>> Now for the strange part.  On the label is a white sticker that says
>> "DON'T PEEL OFF AT STORE."  Not in itself unreasonable, because a person
>> could steal a bottle lable was a Battle Droid winner.  The unusual part
>> is that this sticker is in English.  Only English.  Considering the tiny
>> percentage of foreigners who make up the market for this product, and
>> the small percentage of non-foreigners who have the language ability to
>> understand the sticker, it makes me wonder if this isn't another
>> "foreigners are going to steal" kind of thing.  Wasn't it Family Mart
>> that had that policy about not making change for foreigners because they
>> thought foreigners would use it as a pretext for robbing the store?

>You are thinking of Lawsons. 
>Speaking of which, I stopped into a Lawsons today 
>that happened to be near by and had a look at the 
>Pepsi bottles there. There were as Jonathan described 
>them. It would seem to be a Pepsi thing. How about in 
>other countries? Are there similar stickers and in 
>what language? 

>Pepsi Japan can be reached by fax and by email. 
>I think this is worth an enquiry. I think we 
>would want to check if these stickers are being 
>used in English speaking countries and Pepsi simply 
>didn't make Japanese ones (for some reason) or whether 
>these stickers were actually produced in Japan. 
>If someone would be kind enough to write one up, 
>we can send it from ISSHO, webbing it at the same 
>time. 


Is this what occupies the time of civil rights organizations in the absence of
segregated lunch counters and lynchings? Call Jesse Jackson, he'll want a piece
of this pie. Not likely to get any, though. Won't be any left to go around by
the time the gang of usual suspects get done with it.

Wonder how much airtime and how many column inches Dave will be able to wrangle
out of this latest abuse of my civil rights and gaijin dignity?

How about we start taking down the names and addresses of all the places we see
with signs in English saying they don't make change (but with Japanese added
*really* small beneath it)? If Lawsons got everyone's panties in such a wad
there are enough other cases of precisely the same thing to keep these groups
indignantly occupied for the next century.

Things must be pretty damned good for foreigners in Japan if this is the biggest
problem we've got.


Michael Cash