Belated readers' responses to "Parents, please keep your kids away from me at feeding time" by Christy Bridgeman (Hotline to Nagatacho, May 22) and J. Bradley Bulsterbaum's letter on the subject, "Cut gaijin-gawking children some slack — it's how they learn" (Have Your Say, June 26):
I read both articles and found them very interesting. It led me to think back on the time my family arrived in Japan a little more than five years ago.
It is not only Japanese kids who stare; we adults stare too in the beginning, and especially the young children stare at everyone. Japanese adults also stare.