The Japanese 'Tradition' That Refuses to Die

Japan, where even local news comes on a clipboard and ATMs have opening hours.

The kind of notices we get in our Kairanban. This one is asking us to clean up the deep drains around our houses, which are colloquially known as ‘Gaijin Traps’ as ‘Gaijin’ (foreigners) often either fall into, or drive into, them.

Japan is somehow both hyper-efficient and completely inefficient at the same time.

Everyone’s heard about how Japan still use…