Re: Sentoryu etc.

[Seelye Martin <seelye@beaver.ocean.washington.edu>]

On Sun, 21 Aug 1994, Richard Webb wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Has anyone heard Sentoryu speak?  Does he speak Japanese?  I'm assuming he's
> > an American citizen, but does anyone know for sure?
> > -yugo
> > 
> I haven't heard him speak, but according to the article in Sumo
> World, he has been a very slow learner of the Japanese language.
> This seems incredible to me since his mother was/is a Japanese
> citizen and he lived the first seven years of his life in Japan.

	Yeah, well, I assume he spent his first seven years at Yakoda air force
base, which is a little piece of the US, with dollar-economy, PX,
Stars-and-Stripes newspaper,FEN broadcasting, and English language
pre-school and all schools.  Some of those people barely know what a yen
is, so he may not have had much Nihongo his first seven years.
Seelye Martin>
 > Richard Webb
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