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  1. Posted this in the phone thread as its the same kind of thing:

     

    TV last night. Some obasan running a small eating place in Kyoto, being asked to remove their big sign outside. Replacing it would cost 100man (really?!?) and the town won't help. But it's a new rule to take down signs and make the city pretty rather than full of advertising noise. "To make it more appealing to foreign tourists".

     

    Some dude commented on it would be a shame if Japan was changed due to the pressure of foreigners. It's like the default bullshit isn't it. Don't suppose Japanese people themselves want nice looking towns, oh no.

  2. There was actually something on the tv last night on that subject.

     

    Some obasan running a small eating place in Kyoto, being asked to remove their big sign outside. Replacing it would cost 100man (really?!?) and the town won't help. But it's a new rule to take down signs and make the city pretty rather than full of advertising noise.

     

    Some dude commented on it would be a shame if Japan was changed due to the pressure of foreigners. It's like the default bullshit isn't it. Don't suppose Japanese people themselves want nice looking towns, oh no.

  3. A road tunnel in Norway has been closed - by a lorry-load of burning cheese.

     

    About 27 tonnes of caramelised brown goat cheese - a delicacy known as Brunost - caught light as it was being driven through the Brattli Tunnel at Tysfjord, northern Norway, last week.

     

    The fire raged for five days and smouldering toxic gases were slowing the recovery operation, officials said.

     

    The tunnel - which is said to be badly damaged - is likely to remain closed for several weeks, they added.

     

    "We can't go in until it's safe," geologist Viggo Aronsen told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

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