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Life In Japan: Highway Service Areas

Posted on April 9, 2020 by johnrachel

Highway service areas in Japan are what we in the U.S. call ‘rest areas’. There are highway service areas in Japan so elaborate and well-outfitted that families pay the pricey highway toll just to visit them and spend the day. For these folks, going there is the same as going to a park or a shopping mall to hang out and have fun. Continue reading →

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Life In Japan: Washlets

Posted on January 29, 2020 by johnrachel

Why haven’t washlets, a Japanese innovation I put on a par with the invention of the steam engine or artificial intelligence, caught on in Western countries? Has someone tried to market them to the wiping/smearing/stinky-butted round-eyed barbarians of Europe, the U.S., Australia, Canada, and the rest of the non-Japanese world … and gone bankrupt?  I don’t get it. Continue reading →

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