For those willing to pay the often mindboggling membership costs, or alternatively fork out the still substantial but far more affordable green fees, access will be granted to the eccentricities of golf in Japan, like big meals and beers midway round, and the slightly comical language localisation; including the almost cute ‘caddie-san’, as well as my own personal favourite, ‘Nice on!’. …
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King-sized Japanese kites
http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/?p=2116As a child, flying a little kite was tremendous fun, but in some parts of Japan, the ‘kids’, as well as being significantly more sullen, aren’t nearly so small, and the kites are mindboggingly massive. …
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Japanese second-hand sales slump
http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/?p=2114While petrol prices are presumably a long way from their peak — if indeed a peak is even possible anymore — the situation certainly hasn’t hampered Toyota, with the Japanese giant consistently selling more cars than its competitors; the carmaker’s fuel efficient engines presumably having a lot to do with its soaring success. …
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