jap habit

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one of my few regrets, or if you like laments, with this blog is that i do not attract nearly as many Japanese based readers as i had thought. increasingly i am coming to suspect that this is down to the fact that Japan simply doesn't have an internet.

yes, before you ask, if you have not seen such posts before, i have indeed attempted to write 日本語のみ, but that does not seem to help and it just makes it tricky for everyone else to read.

this has come up again as Spiros has been in Japan recently. yes, that Japan. he was most pleased with his experience there, and asked me to publish this guest post. below, in italics, is his post, along with some images. it is only some very minor editing and censorship i have felt obliged to apply.

Spiros Guest Post On Japanese Taxis 

Stevie and other [expletive removed, no suitable replacement available], especially Cameron, f’off. Look you see, I have had the pleasure of spending an extended time in Japan. I thought my time was ruined when i heard ‘take a cab’ on day one.

In London that means listening to a white guy, who smells of p!ss, and who hates black people (pull the f’n lever meself!), whilst he navigates the shortest possible route between Heathrow and Kew Gardens via Canary Wharf, Your f’n “knowledge”, I can read Google maps just as easily as the next Bulgarian.

I would be ashamed to do a spew in a Japanese taxi. These guys wear top hats, white gloves, bow and call me Spiros-san. Black people are fascinating, the ride is in silence, without the cabbie screaming in time to the next moronic comment on LBC, and amazingly, they prefer card payments!

WTF is wrong with Brexit Britain? I was treated properly by men who look like Rees-Mogg earning a wage, everything is clean, they actually make and export things, etc. Plus I got to wear a kimono for three days and do karate training every day.

the only other thing Spiros added as an aside was that Uber does not operate in Japan. he said this is because, unlike his experiences in London, there is absolutely no need or call for it as the taxi drivers you find there are honest.

anyway, i would hope and trust that this has been of some interest to some of you.



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or, indeed,



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