(He and his wife were living on a Greek island called Spetses. One day, they decide to go to a movie theater to watch a Bruce Lee movie. Here’s part of the conversation he had with the theater owner. Ojisan is a term used to describe a middle-age man)
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“Where did you guy come from?” said the “it’s alright” ojisan.
“i-masute apo tin yaponia (we came from Japan)” I said exactly as written in the example sentence on page 22 of the Hakusensya’s Express Modern Greek by Araki Hideyo.
Then, with no facial expressions, the ojisan stated “Yokohama Muroran Sendai Kobe” and stared at me as if to say ‘now what comes next.’
I managed to respond by saying “hahaha, you know very well.” In general, many of the things Greek people know about Japan are just the names of ports and companies. Therefore, if I were to continue with the ojisan’s poem, it should go “Sony and Casio, Yamaha Seiko Datsun.”
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