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I worked at a Japanese newspaper for 12½ years. When they gave me an award for investigative reporting on a yakuza-backed loan shark, a top director leaned over at the ceremony and asked, “So — can you read kanji?”
I didn’t get mad. It just never computed for him that yes, I’d been reporting and writing in Japanese for his company for over a decade. I smiled and said, “Yes. On a good day.” And left it at that.

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