Biographies that make his few months in service overseas sound longer than his 19 years in the Senate will never be convincing.
Analysts and management consultants said that the struggle of the Japanese food companies to keep up with their Western rivals in overseas territories sounded familiar: Japanese companies that have higher-quality products are still sometimes hampered by weak marketing and brand strategies.
As the country reeled under mass unemployment, riots and messy overseas conflicts (sound familiar?), tabloids, campaigners and the powers that be were quick to agree that, yes, gory horror films were absolutely the biggest threat to national stability.
He was never sent overseas and sounded sorry that he didn't do more when he noted, "It was not very exciting, but we did do some satellite communications work". The return to active service also interrupted his schooling at San Luis Obispo's Cuesta College, which he hasn't gone back to complete.
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The success of the French touch propelled the sound overseas, where producers tried their hand at replicating its Parisian swing with decidedly mixed results.
Marcus North, Glamorgan's first overseas player this year, sounded out his compatriot over a move to Cardiff.
Maybe through circumstance rather than design, Denis Betts selected a 17 including only three overseas players, and it sounds like Jack Owens, the young full-back of whom the Vikings hold such high hopes, had a blinder.
Newton stuck by dubstep, but he wasn't blind to the issues that began to surface within the music as a result of its merger with the more aggressive and overly indulgent sounds from overseas.
The deal is also the latest in a string of overseas acquisitions by financially sound Japanese companies hunting for opportunities outside their home market.
