A friend who lives in Japan (and is fluent in the language) tells me: “As far as I can see, the Cheney shooting incident was not reported on Japanese TV *even once*. No doubt it got some minor mention in the newspapers, but why it didn’t get on TV is a mystery to me. Granted most Japanese have no idea who the American VP is or what he does, but this one
is a real puzzler…”
Could it be that the entire nation is stunned that they haven’t yet won a single Olympic medal?
There you have two more reasons to wish you were born Japanese.