Let's Japan.org

Thanks for taking the time to reply, I do, in all seriousness appreciate it. I enjoy your site and I'm sure it's a valuable source of information for many of us living here (and for those considering coming over).

And just right off the bat - thanks for the hotlink to the mainichi - having had it bookmarked, and having googled it, I couldn't get past the apology letter page.

...There seems to some confusion in that I'm not actually presenting an argument here, I was responding to your post on the article in the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan's No.1 Shimbun. I would, otherwise have commented on the previous thread.

Although it's quite apparently not the case, I had thought it was obvious that I was not entirely disagreeing with you but rather defending the position of the Foreign Correspondent's Club article.
Sorry for not making that clearer in my post.

I am, in point of fact, not a fan, nor regular reader of Wai Wai. Until I read the FCCJ article I was unaware that the Mainichi had won a Pulitzer for Photography in 1961. I've never heard Japanese friends, co-workers, or even clients speak of the Mainichi with anything other than disdain or otherwise take it seriously. I do have a certain amount of respect for the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan, and I can understand that they would approach the story from the angle that they did.

In any case - yeah, I think the few of us that appear to be interested in the story are beating this to death - I agree with a lot of what you've written, I don't like the way the Mainichi has conducted itself, I do think they supplied enough of a preface to the readership that the Wai Wai articles should have been read wioth a grain of salt.