jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> Apud necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
> >jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> >> Apud declan_murphy@hotmail.com (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus:
> >>
> >>> Discovered yesterday that Aichi has the highest car theft rate in
> >>> Japan (Saitama a very distant second). I wonder where the stolen
> >>> cars are exported to.
> >>
> >> NZ, probably. Every second car there is a grey market import from
> >> Japan.
>
> >I lot of them go to Russia, don't they?
>
> Sure do. I walked around the wharves at Otaru once, and it was like
> a second-hand car yard. From the look of them, they wouldn't
> have sold in NZ.

Took a photo (about 1994 or so) of a russian fishing trawler in
Wakkanai harbour with at least 7 cars/4WDs on it. Two of the 4WDs were
hanging over opposing sides of the vessel. Probably shipping them to
Sakhalin, or maybe even Petropavlovsk. Had a whole range of 2nd hand
whitegoods on the deck as well. Apparently there was even a market for
2nd hand toaster ovens.