Japan Times
READERS IN COUNCIL
May 30, 2004
Let me say that as a recent graduate of the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, Medford, I don’t see how fourth-term Lower House member Harada Yoshiaki (who stepped down from his post as senior vice education minister on May 20) could not have known that he did not graduate when he left that school in 1968. If he was properly studying at the school, he would have known---through contracts with academic supervisors or printed transcripts that the school would have sent him---whether he had properly graduated from the school or not. Graduates are awarded a formal diploma.
The fact that it was reported that he claims that he did not know until recently that he did not graduate is, frankly, incredible. I believe that he has been lying. And by this prevarication and mendacious behavior, he does a disservice not only to the Japanese people, but insults those Fletcher graduates such as me who have studied hard to properly graduate. He does not deserve to be a representative of decent Japanese citizens.
KO UNOKI
Tokyo
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