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| The results are in, and the Japanese are the most polite people on earth when they’re traveling. A study conducted for Expedia.com compiled the responses of 15,000 European hoteliers and found that Japanese are the most gracious travelers, followed by Americans and then the Swiss. The Japanese are described as “polite and tidy” and received 35 percent more votes than Americans. |
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| The world’s worst travelers according to the study are the French, followed by India, China, and then Russia. I wonder if China’s ranking had anything to do with their penchant for spitting everywhere and picking their noses at the table. |
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| The Japanese were also awarded the distinction of being “most likely to grope women and steal their underwear from their suitcases.” Ok, not really… |
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Rich Kuslan on 09 Jun 2007 at 1:19 am #
Good reading — I’ve blogrolled you at ABI. Sincerely, Rich (Asia Business Intelligence, http://www.asiabizblog.com)
Chris on 09 Jun 2007 at 2:25 am #
Thanks for the add, Rich.
-Chris
Japan has either huge closets or tiny homeless people | Due-East.org on 02 Jun 2008 at 8:02 am #
[…] From the ‘only in Japan’ file……If I were a 58-year-old homeless Japanese woman, where would I take up residence? I have no idea, but one lady in Japan moved into someone’s closet. According to the article, she slipped inside a man’s house and took up residence in his closet’s top cubby area one day when he left the house unlocked. Apparently the guy never uses that part of his closet because he didn’t notice anything suspicious until food began mysteriously disappearing. Eventually, he set up cameras in his house and had the images transmitted to his cell phone. The lady showed up on camera, the police were called, and she was nabbed and charged with trespassing, which is a lot lighter a charge than she would probably get in America. The article also says that she “moved a small mattress into the closet space.” How gigantic must the closet be to fit a mattress inside it?! Or how small is the mattress (and thus the lady)?! Either way, that’s crazy. Another cool ‘only in Japan’ note on the article: She took showers at the guy’s house and was described by a police spokesman as “neat and clean.” Hmmm…that sounds familiar. […]