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DATE: FRIDAY, June 18, 1993                   TAG: 9306180037
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: TOKYO                                LENGTH: Short

VIOLENT U.S. SLANG EXPLAINED IN JAPAN

Hoping to prevent another tragic misunderstanding, officials plan to introduce U.S.-bound travelers to American slang.

"Back off," "cut that out," "get lost" and "hands in the air" are among about 30 expressions to be included in the pamphlet due out next month.

The project was in response to the October shooting death of teen-age exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori in Baton Rouge, La.

Hattori, who went to the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party, apparently didn't understand the command "freeze." Rodney Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter charges last month.

About 200,000 copies of the pamphlet are to be distributed through travel agents and targeted at short-term student travelers, the newspaper Mainichi reported.

by CNB