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Day 3 "The Money"
This is Sony headquarters: It is very money. I don't exactly know if they develop and research things here but they sure do have a lot of toys to play with. I had only 30 min to explore the whole building so do you think I ran blazing through ever level? Damn straight I did. While mother went shopping for whatever she's looking for Dad and I tore through this building stopping only to ogle at stuff. I couldn't take pictures of a lot of the stuff but no matter, it's Japan. Even if I did take pictures of the neat stuff they had in there in 2 months it would be obsolete and there will be new stuff there. But ohhhhh man did they have a lot of toys in there. I won't completely nerd out and talk about all of them in great detail here but do know this: If Japan makes something
it comes out as soon as the government says it's ok to release it to the public.
So about 3 months. Then after about a year the Japanese decide to share
the product with the rest of the world. First to Europe and then to the US
1-2 years after Europe. The US government then keeps it for another year
to 3 years before
What my dad is doing in that pose is that he is setting one foot on the world's most expensive property in the world per sq. ft. This shop and because of the way Japan is has the highest rent in the world I guess. Guess what they sell? Paper things. Yeah, paper things. Like fans, and notepads, diaries, and mirrors of sorts. For having the world's highest rent I don't even know how much things cost there. I didn't want to find out, mom bought a mirror there and I still don't know what it costs. For having a rent that high every single paper thing should be made of Marilyn Monroe's used under-panties and sold for 3 quad zillion yen which would equal $100 or so.
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This part is called the
money because I couldn't come up with a better name for it. So, what I'm
going to do is just use the term "money" a lot to try and make this part and the
title more relevant.
releasing
that to the American public. All the stuff I saw in that building was
probably in between the 3 month period of them making it and the government
saying it's ok. So the stuff in there was 2 to 5.5 years ahead of us.
Any nerd right now would be wetting his/her pants. I'd bet money on it.
Why
is rent so expensive in Japan? Well, Japan has about 1/29 the land mass as
US but with 1/2 the people.
In addition to that only 30% or so of that land is useable because the
rest of it is mountains. The population of the US is about 280 million.
So that's like all of the
population of the US fitting into something the size of CA by my guess.
There's not much room in Japan. not much at all.
These two pictures
are pillars from a temple. The temple every year on some holiday I can't
remember gets tens of thousands of visitors. Why? Because of a
superstition that if you make it to this place on that holiday and put money
into this container inside you will have good luck all year round. Well
some people get lazy some years and decide that instead of waiting in line to
put the money in the container they'll just throw the money. These are
notches from coins being thrown. Heh, money hurts.
