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Last time I was in Japan, around 2005 I believe it was, things had changed a great deal. This was exemplified in an encounter unlike any other I had had in all the four times I have been to Japan.
As I was walking from my hotel to a conference, I cut through a nice wooded area. As I walked I saw a bent over, old Japanese woman glaring at me. In all my experience in Japan elderly women seldom paid any attention to foreigners, though when they did it was generally to smile. This one glared.
I smiled as I approached her and said, in Japanese, "good morning."
She shouted at me in halting, broken English, "Where...you...from?"
I responded in my best Japanese, "I'm American." [NOTE: I never was one to claim to be Canadian or anything, like some travelers I know did during the Bush years.]
Her glared got angrier and she erupted in a loud shout (something I had never seen an elderly Japanese woman do) and said, "KILL GEORGE BUSH!!!"
I quietly explained, again in my best Japanese, that I didn't like George Bush. She smiled, said "goodbye" and walked on.
THAT is what George Bush did to America.
