Well its been a few weeks since the last update. Life here has been pretty quite not much work for me to do, so that open of time for me to make more updates. Infact I think that I might be able to put up one every day. (Sorry Kristi) I have to send my laptop in for repaires soon, but I think that is can wait untill the end of June. (^_^)
Any ways here is a list of thing that you may not have know about Japan:
•When you buy a beer from a vending machine it doesn't cost anymore than it does in a supermarket (No bulk purchase discount)
•You can buy damn near anything from a vending machine here (whisky, french-fries, rice, video games, ramen noodles, batteries, fresh flowers, used women's panties, ...the list is endless)
•You can pay almost any kind of bill at any convenience store
•ATM's are not open 24 hours per day, and usually shut down around 7 or 8 p.m.
•Some workers at train stations do not go home at night, they sleep in dormatories at the station to be able to open the station very early in the morning and close it very late at night
•Nearly everyone smokes
•When you leave a gas station the attendants stop traffic for you so you can get back on the road easily, then they bow to you as you leave
•Different denominations of Japanese paper currency are different sizes, the larger the denomination the larger the bill is
•Japanese paper currency has brail on it
•There are people who have the job of pushing people into trains during rush hour so that the doors can close
•Most Japanese houses have no insulation
•Coffee tables with built in heaters and an accompanying blanket quickly become your best friends here in winter
•A lot of people use kerosene heaters in the house during the winter
•Trains are Always on time
•Gasoline costs almost $4 per gallon
•A single can of beer costs about $2.20 in stores
•A single beer can cost anywhere from $3 to $15 in bar
•Some old women highlight their hair purple or blue, they think it looks nice (I'm not kidding)
•The doors on taxis open and close automatically
•In Japan you can rent music CD's, just like renting a movie
•Japanese snowmen are made with two snowballs instead of three
•It costs about $16 to see a movie in a theater
•Magazines and books are read "right handed" or "backwards" compared to western publications
•Nobody uses checks, everything is bought using cash or credit cards
•A small name stamp, called "inkan", carries the same legal weight as a persons signature
•Taxi drivers wear white gloves
•All convenience stores have the same prices for their products and they even go on sale at the same times (Yes, price fixing is rampant here)
•Most younger Japanese can read and write English
•Most younger Japanese cannot actually speak very much English
