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To: yosi s who wrote (17653)	3/12/1998 11:18:00 PM
From: JMD	Respond to of 70976

yosi s, to set the record straight: (1) I have deep respect for Japan and its culture, having visited many times and done business at high levels. I have never been treated with anything but utmost courtesy and cordiality. (2) I am no U.S. flag waiver--we have more problems than you can shake a stick at. But your opening sentence "Japan is a conservative society" is what scares me the most. Japan at this hour has absolutely no need for conservatism. Indeed, radical political and economic reform is the order of the day, IMO. And I fear that Japan is, at its core, incapable of initiating such rapid shifts. And I hope to hell I am as wrong as wrong can be. Respectfully, Mike Doyle