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Japan is my favourite country — it is bonkers
If you visit Japan, you will notice a lot of things. A lot of beguiling, unfamiliar and often perplexing things.
Chairs on trains swivel 180 degrees so as to always face the direction of travel. The doors to taxis close automatically. You can smoke inside many restaurants, but only in designated areas on the street.
Toilets are more advanced than the International Space Station, with buttons for services you didn’t even realise were desirable toilet features. Men openly read violent manga pornography in public — perhaps involving giant octopus tentacles — and no one will bat an eyelid. And there is absolutely and equivocally no tipping in Japan.