Only
20 days left. The countdown, the nerves, the consequences of the moving to
another house in hurry, and the piled up work (above all the last two ones),
are among the causes of the last very short posts, which is not going to be
an exception in the future.
Few
days ago, we welcomed into our house or, better said, in the house of Gabriel's
mother, a young couple who lives in Kobe, a city close to Kyoto. They, him Austrian and her Australian, shared with us their experience in Japan.
As the conversation, and the chilled beers, went by we thought we were going to
the other side of the planet not just for a ride on the bike. Everything they
talked about was so great! A honoured society, respectful and hard-working;
competent governors who, if in doubt of not having been so honourable, resign
in haste and can even do the “hara-kiri” (how many among us should take the
hint!); people in love with nature and who care about it because know that
the human being is part of it; and households in
which the grandpa is the leader at the table. However, and like everywhere
else, there are also weak points: the damn radioactive energy freed by the men
and the elements, the contamination, the overpopulation, or the difficulties in
achieving confidence in the Japanese language. As for Spain, the expectations
for the future are not looking bright at all and, perhaps, we thought it might
be time to try up different “airs.”
Although they say
comparisons are no good, and out of curiosity, below we propose a table in
which we have compared some economic data concerning different countries, in
the hope of getting a better idea (even if a faint one) of how this unfortunate economic crisis has
affected Japan:
Source: http://www.datosmacro.com
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