John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>>The company that ran the "Rhine Kudari" has gone bankrupt.
> 
> All this time I never knew ラインmeant "Rhine" in that context. Now I find
> out, only to learn in the same breath that it's gone bankrupt!

Of course it meant the bloody Rhine. Jaysus John. I mean, Jaysus!
What coachload of Japanese oyaji *couldn't* float down the Kisogawa 
looking at hawks, the occasional monkey, and Inuyama castle while 
thinking "Hmm, this is just like the Rhine"?

> I guess that fatal accident they had a couple of years or so ago must have
> knocked a dent in them...

Not to worry. Floating down the Kisogawa looking at hawks, the 
occasional monkey, and Inuyama castle while listening to scratchy 
recordings of 1950's German Oompah bands is such a bad idea that it is 
bound to be resurrected.

-- 
"UFJ in general are a bunch of shitheads" - tourist in not-quite-Japan.