"Larry L" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote


It's amazing how life always seems to balances out. Great story btw.
My parents were put in the Japanese-American Internment camps when they
grew up here in the states. Unfortunately for us, the last thing they
wanted their kids to be was Japanese. So we lost a lot of our culture in
not speaking the language, and not eating the foods.

I hadn't really noticed your name when I posted my HF story. But the
Fork seems to be a type of fishing Mecca for Japanese. I run into
parties from there every year, I hear that Rene Harrop is much published
and admired there, and one of my 'buddies' in the area is recently married
to a woman who came to fish the Fork from Japan and stayed.

I also married a gal from Japan, Yokohama and I tell my friends I did
something right in my life...going on 25 years next March.


I read somewhere in a book claiming to be science about fish that Japanese
have a chemical in their skin oils that is attractive to fish .... genetic
advantage g ... makes sense to me, island people evolving where fishing
is so very important .... have you ever heard this? I'll try and find
the book, it's probably in my library.

I'm not sure on this, I'll have to ask Bev about that one. I know the
Japanese women are always into natural lotions and extracts from plants or
animals to keep their skin beautiful.



One last Japanese fishing thingy. Apparently there are some things that
can't be said in Japanese as each year I overhear a conversation or two
that ( to me ) sounds like, "yamanashi fugiwama leader shy makidori" g
and I get a chuckle from it. I've seen a couple Japanese fishing
magazines and they are a mixture of those cool characters with some
English words throw in too ... kinda weird, really

The Japanese have a lot of sayings that are hard to translate in the
American language. My mother-in-law used to call me "WholeOss" and give me
a huge smile. So for six months I thought it was something good, thought I
was the guru of Son-in-laws. Then I found out she was getting her compound
words crossed. She was actually call me an "Asshole".


My experience with the foreign anglers in the Yellowstone area would place
the Japanese at the very top of the list in manners, ethics, and
politeness to others ...... German speakers near the bottom ... and those
English speakers with a Texas drawl dead last ... fwiw

I know the Japanese have a different sense of humor than us. I would stay
up late at night watching Johnny Carson host Rodney Dangerfield on the
tonight show and laughing at his one-liners. My two Japanese roommates
couldn't figure-out what the hell I was laughing at. However they would get
a big kick out of Jerry Lewis falling down or the Three Stooges. Yes agree,
the people from Japan are very polite and well mannered.
-tom