Badger Collge Day

Tuesdays this month are badger college day, or rather Yamazaki Animal Health Technology, which is a specialist college training students to be Animal Health Technicians. I'm out there checking academic essays for publication, sourcing funding from foreign institutions and giving advice on all matters English.
Today, the professor I work with had a straight talk with me, saying that I was being too aggressive in my e-mails to funding bodies, and that I had to try and see the bigger picture - that being, foreign countries don't easily equate Japan with being animal friendly, due mainly to their whaling policy. We discussed the matter, and I really didn't even consider that angle before, but it does put a new perspective on being Japanese.
Anyway, it cleared the air, and I think things are cool now. I'll fwd all e-mails to the prof. before sending them out, just to check I'm not being too bullish.