Jim Breen 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?

We don't.  There is no need.  We have the Japanese press to help us
never hear about substandard ideas developed and promoted elsewhere.
After all, if the Japanese needed them, they would have developed them.
 They'd probably not meet the strict standards of Japanese housewives or
offices or would be diseased or full of chemicals, like all Chinese
vegetables are.

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CL