On Jun 7, 8:02 am, Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> rcaetano wrote:
> > On Jun 5, 10:31 am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>In two weeks in Japan I don't recall seeing a single person using a
> >>bloototh device. Is there some rule against it, or was it because I
> >>was in the relative hinterlands (Himeji)?
>
> > Japanese phones usually have infrared and not Bluetooth. Apparently
> > Japanese carriers were never too keen to push Bluetooth.
>
> How do you say "NIH" in Japanese?

Something like 内部で開発した物以外は認めない I'd guess. Maybe its a bit like "pay
peanuts and you get monkeys" (安い給料では能力の低い人材しか手に入らない?) in that there
doesn't appear to be a convenient equivalent proverb or phrase handy.

I've only encountered bluetooth in Japan, but that says more about my
recent travel habits than anything else. In each case though its been
a gaigin.