PHX - The Order of the Phoenix

http://www.outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher1.html

Excerpt:

Y'see, Japan's an island no bigger than California, where everything is filtered. There are so few foreigners here, their only impressions of things outside of Japan comes from the media. And to be honest, they don't really give a damn ...

Wow, and I thought I was unlucky and cursed.