The Nov. 20 opinion piece "Starting today, 'gaijin' formally known as prints" (on the Community page) and The Japan Times' handling of it are completely unacceptable. In its original published form, a final statement indicating the fictitious nature of the e-mails and quotes cited in the article was not included. It left many of us readers and members of the international community scratching our collective heads. Surely it was a farce, we thought, but why was it not indicated as such somewhere when printed? Quite honestly it is items like this that have made me not read The Japan Times over the past few years. Your publishing standards have dropped.
charles duncan
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