It would be a service to foreigners living in Japan -- and to the Japanese themselves -- if someone were to debrief the eyewitnesses, the Sasebo police, and Japanese media members to determine why the word "gaikokujin" appeared in the initial reports of the Dec. 14 shootings.
leonard orosco
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