11. Nobody Told Me!

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11. Nobody Told Me!
Reading? Ogawa
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Outline

• Shut up and write the apology
• -What happened to an author?
• -How to react in America and Japan
• They should have told me
• -In the case of Alien Registration booklets
• -Their claim
• -If she and they accept blame
• Conclusion
• -In Japan

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What happen to an author?

• When she came to Japan???
• At the airport in Tokyo
• Didn't fill out an unaccompanied baggage
• At Osaka port
• couldn't get her baggage
• in addition
• was said that write an apology

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How to react in America and Japan

• In America
• Not an apology, but an explanation
• In Japan
• write the apology
• the matter is promptly cleared up

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In the case of Alien Registration booklets

• ?Alien Registration booklets after the deadline
• ?Foreigners were called in to explain
• to the police
• ?they argued their case
• They didn't realize
• explain actually means apologize

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Their claim

• No one had told them of the rule
• The deadline notice in the back of the booklet
  was too inconspicuous
• Don't understand that spend so much time on a
  minor matter

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If she and they accept blame

• In the case of author
• She is afraid that she may be punished unfairly
• In the case of foreigners
• They are afraid that they will get into more
  trouble

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In Japan

• If foreigner have trouble, they should say that
  they are sorry no matter how they feel.
• They know how quickly and easily
• matters are settle