I think I’m turning Japanese … [Not?]*

(Note: * above is a reference to the worldwide single hit Turning Japanese by The Vapors, taken off their 1980 album New Clear Days).

Despite our Rust delegation out in Japan continuing to set new standards of reporting excellence, overnight I spotted a piece in the British media suggesting that far too often the ‘Hampstead liberal’-type Western press, film, television and media cultural luvvies simply ‘get it wrong’ when covering the Land Of The Rising Sun.

See here for a link to said article by Ellen E. Jones that appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN