"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.komm> wrote in message news:<3F526829.7000405@yahoo.komm>...

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> But it's so educational:
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> "The Japanese have stolen nearly every
> aspect of their culture from China, and the writing system is no exception."

After watching that wonderful Trivia programmme mentioned in another
thread, I found one innovation that Japan gave to China.

The rotating tables often used in Chinese restaurants were actually
invented in 1933 in Meguro, Japan. According to the programme a
Chinese person living in Japan took the idea back to China and it
spread from there.

http://trivia.web.infoseek.co.jp/trivia/20030903.htm

Mukade