Kanchou wrote:I heard something on the news that suggested that his Japanese wasn't all that great, and there has been no mention of him being a naturalized J-dude.
Well I guess none of us knows specifically, however according to CNN:
And he did get an MD and PhD from Kyushu Daigaku so he must speak "some" Japanese. According to his online profile he spent from 1992 to 1999 going to school there.Wearing a Nashville School of Law T-shirt, Christopher Savoie walked into a second-floor police interrogation room. In one corner, a stopwatch was running to hold him to the 15 minutes allotted for the interview.
A Tennessee court awarded Christopher Savoie custody of his son, Isaac, and daughter, Rebecca.
"I'm so scared," he said. Savoie chose his words carefully, lest police Officer Toshihiro Tanaka cut short the rare interview Savoie was granted with CNN on Thursday. There were so many rules: No recording devices. No tough questions. Speak only in Japanese.
And on his broadcast interview from last week he stated on no less than three occasions that he is a Japanese citizen.