What?

AH in Hokkaido wonders if I have been in Japan too long.

She is aggrieved by my recommendation to a reader who asked about an employers' duty to provide a safe and clean environment for its workers: "to get off your high horse and vacuum the air con yourself."

AH writes: "What?! I suggest that if staff at the Japan Times were suffering from respiratory problems and complaining of headaches then Angela would be first among the foreign staff to go to management and say: 'Hey -- this is making our working conditions bad, what are you going to do about it!' "