Following are a selection of readers' responses to last month's Just Be Cause column by Debito Arudou, headlined "Meet Mr. James, gaijin clown":
Having lived in San Francisco for nearly 46 years and grown up in the shadow of, and played in, Independence Hall in Philadelphia as a child, had I chosen the career of barbering I might have come to Japan and worked trimming the hair of the lunatic fringe.
Debito's latest rant and rave about the creature at McDonald's is something I would expect in San Francisco, truly the birthplace of crackpots, dissidents and malcontents.
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