2008-03-11
3/11: The Longest Day
By the clock, I woke up on Monday at 9-something and got to bed around midnight, 38-odd hours later. It was really only a 20 hour day, but I was near hallucinating by the end of it. Half of the day was spent on an airplane. Here's the first of what will no doubt be many pictures of weird signage, from the airplane head:
"Cups below. BUT DON'T FILL THEM WITH WATER!"
The first thing I learned today, which I should have remembered from China, is that if you ask a question in Japanese you'll get an answer in Japanese. And you won't understand a word of it.
Second thing I learned is that Tokyo is no place for throwing stuff away (which is funny, considering the Japanese obsession with maximizing the packaging-to-contents ratio) or for using a laptop on your hotel room bed. There are apparently no public trash cans anywhere in the city, and the only electrical outlets in this room are over at the desk. Curses!
a short video.
"Cups below. BUT DON'T FILL THEM WITH WATER!"
The first thing I learned today, which I should have remembered from China, is that if you ask a question in Japanese you'll get an answer in Japanese. And you won't understand a word of it.
Second thing I learned is that Tokyo is no place for throwing stuff away (which is funny, considering the Japanese obsession with maximizing the packaging-to-contents ratio) or for using a laptop on your hotel room bed. There are apparently no public trash cans anywhere in the city, and the only electrical outlets in this room are over at the desk. Curses!
a short video.
# posted by Dave : 4:52 PM
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I remember reading something awhile ago about how the Japanese are so careful about their waste stream that they have like 20 categories of recycling/garbage and you get ratted out by your neighbors if you don't sort your trash correctly. Apparently, when you live on an island, you need to keep landfills to a minimum!
Perhaps the maximized packaging-to-contents ratio is strictly for the export market, as a sneaky way to get us to take some of their waste stream so they don't have to figure out what to do with it :)
Perhaps the maximized packaging-to-contents ratio is strictly for the export market, as a sneaky way to get us to take some of their waste stream so they don't have to figure out what to do with it :)
I've definitely seen more recycling options available when you can find them, but it's really hard to find them. And I've seen plenty of recyclables in trash cans.
Cabel says that after the Aum Shinrikyo attacks they pulled all the trash cans out of the subway. We also suspect that people don't generate much trash while they're out and about: I can't remember seeing many people swilling coffee and snarfing curry pan like we do.
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Cabel says that after the Aum Shinrikyo attacks they pulled all the trash cans out of the subway. We also suspect that people don't generate much trash while they're out and about: I can't remember seeing many people swilling coffee and snarfing curry pan like we do.
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