20/12/25 01:46:47.07 qJqJ7DS20.net
It was when I resided for work in a certain country in South-east Asia that I met ‘him’.
He was a salesman of a famous Japanese trading company, and was said to earn as much as average lawyers and accountants in Japan.
However, in my eyes, he hardly seemed to deserve his position.
In spite of his occupation, he was far from a good English-speaker,
and although four years had passed since he was dispatched there, he had never felt like learning the language of the country in which he stayed.
What's more surprising was his deficiency of intelligence.
He didn't know what the capital of Poland was and what language was spoken in Austria.
Nor could he pinpoint the location of France on the world map.
I had once fancied that he came from the privileged class and he owed his current position to it.
But the fact was that his father was nothing but a mere shop assistant.
In Japan, one's amount of knowledge seems to have far less to do with his social position and income than in the United States.
This is why I wasn't surprised so much at the news that Prime Minister Suga abused scholars.