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I plead guilty to being a new poster! It's interesting that you state that I have a "d*mn" negative overtone and then use profanity to describe my tone. Thanks for getting over your preoccupation of the quantity of my posts and actually giving an intellegent response to my questions. Sometimes the stereotypes we have of each other between us Westerners and Japanese can be humorous at first as we get to know a culture better.