Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 What's the reasoning behind the schism, Chris/BM? America's inability to agree to mutually fair bilateral agreement? Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Not too sure....I heard some story that at some time in the past a Japanese minister had a residence in Canada and wanted to drive without taking a driving test and made some kind of reciprocal legislation deal. Sounds like BS to me but who knows... Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 What's the reasoning behind the schism, Chris/BM? America's inability to agree to mutually fair bilateral agreement? I think it has to do with the bilateral agreement bit... but the Japanese minister story is funny and just as likely to be true for all I know Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 Not too sure....I heard some story that at some time in the past a Japanese minister had a residence in Canada and wanted to drive without taking a driving test and made some kind of reciprocal legislation deal. Sounds like BS to me but who knows...What about that story sounds like BS? Sounds EXACTLY how the world operates!We have an intersection at lights near our home where one of the branches has been dropped to one way just for maybe the 5 or 6 houses past the lights. Apparently a local government councillor lives in one of those houses and wanted to drop the amount of through traffic. It's a right pain in the toosh! Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Mamabear.....It just sounded like something that would go on in Cambodia....not Canada. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 It goes on everywhere. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Dunno, but I'm a Yank and have never had to take a driving test in Japan. (And now I have a GOLD license too! :thumbsup: ) Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 But when you first came over here, you had to ride your horse around the pasture.....right? Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Back when i first came to Japan and had to get a Japanese license, I didn't have an exit stamp in my passport for a certain country. Because of this -they were not going to issue me with a license until I proved to them that I hadn't got my license in that country and left almost immediately. It took a few heated words and a quiet phone call for them to change their mind. What was worse was that I had passed my test 15 years earlier... Link to post Share on other sites
rider69 18 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Depends on where you live but some towns dont require a parking spot or garage shomeisho. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Good grief, Tubs. We didn't have horses back then. Fortunately there was a goodly supply of serfs to shoulder the sedan chair 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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