----- Original Message ----- From: "jean-christophe helary" <suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp>
> What, then, are the ``Japanese values'' that must be protected? The
government's recent attitude makes me want to answer, ``A closed society
and contempt for human rights.'' I am sorry this is probably how it
looks to the rest of the world.
>
> The Asahi Shimbun, May 23(IHT/Asahi: May 24,2002)
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Probably trying to protect themselves from the Yakuza.
Ian