Declan Murphy wrote:

> Just popped home to the apartment to pick up some dictionaries and 
> stuff. Checked the mailbox on the way out to find that I received a new 
> updated guide to Okazaki's ultra-intrusive & meiwaku recycling "system".

Got no clue about the below, but i'm interested in Okazaki's 
ultra-intrusive recycling "system". Please explain? 

> It has my apartment number written on it, and the title is "Mais 
> Reciclagem, Menos Lixo no Seculo 21 - Guia Oficial". On the front cover, 
> no less a man than Tokugawa Ieyasu himself informs us that "Separar por 
> tipos e a melhor maneira de reduzir o lixo". I checked the mailboxes of 
> the two other gaigins living in the 8 apartment block and they likewise 
> received Portuguese (despite being American and Chinese respectively). 
> The other apartments got a Japanese version, so the only way they knew 
> that a gaigin lived in B-201 was from the same database that would list 
> my nationality etc.
> 
> Perhaps the city hall staff and the Family Mart Hijinks Krew could get 
> together for a beer or three and a think. I would even be prepared to 
> give them a free Guinness each if it would help.