You really are becoming boring, arsenal! And your continued harping on on this topic when you know nothing about it, despite what I and a447 (a poster who spent decades in Japan) have written, implies you don't believe what I have written. Well I can tell you it is the absolute truth. And I trust you will not continue to infer that I am lying.

Incidentally, when I left Hong Kong for Japan, I gave a dinner for my senior staff. Our senior accountant gave me what I thought was the greatest compliment I could have hoped for. She said the staff felt I was "more Chinese than a Chinese". No doubt you don't believe that either.