News From Japan
So Koizumi managed to get the lower house to pass his postal reform which will see Japan Post privatised entirely by 2017. See here for the story...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4651155.stm
What does this mean? Who knows but it's supposed to be a big deal so I just thought I'd share.
Also Japanese WWII orphans have been refused compensation...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4654681.stm
This one I know a little bit about. Japan has a very strange way of treating other Asian foreigners... Although most western-looking foreigners are for the most part treated as celebrities (except when they do something wrong), Japan seems to have this bizarre hatred for other Asian nationals... There is girl at KHS that is the grand-children of one of these Japanese nationals abandoned in China. By blood, she is fully Japanese, she was repatriated when she was 8 years old, but for some reason, she still has to take the JLPT in order to prove he fluency in her mother tongue... because she is still a foreigner according to her papers. WTF? Things are changing, especially since the Korean soap operas started getting a lot of air time, but change comes very slowly. But I digress...
posted by Samantha @ 7:48 PM
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