Homeless American Protests Chopstick Use in Japan

This story delineates a biographical sketch of Vincent Dodson and it is odd. He is an American in Japan that is either the unluckiest or the most nonconformist person alive. Somehow he went from presumably being a cute toddler to being a troubled teenager who couldn't get along with his family. From there he went to the Far East to fail at marriage, teaching, and business and, now, he's a homeless man wandering around Japan dedicated to ridding the world of wooden chopsticks.

Frankly, I don't know what basis was employed by The Japan Times whereby they decided this was a news story because it really isn't. It's more of a thumbnail character study of a guy who has apparently taken the wrong fork on every road he's traveled. On a positive note, it can be said that Vincent Dodson is at the forefront of the anti-wooden chopstick movement. In fact, he may be the father of the cause.