Apud declan_murphy@hotmail.com (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus:
>I've received a couple of gaiginsama notes over the years, but also
>when back in Iidabashi. At midnight mass in Hakodate a while back it
>wasn't a note but in the aisle for the Eucharist.

Written on the floor? Was this like the cathedral in Calcutta, which
had special pews for untouchable Catholics?

>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.

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