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Japan Trip 2006 - Day 4

I'm in Osaka right now with Yoshiro's family. It has been an interesting day. Yoji and I met up with Akira down in Waseda. It is graduation season so there are a lot of girls wearing their kimonos on the street. We had some new style ramen and then they took me to the Imperial Place near Tokyo Station. I took the Hikari bullet-train down into Osaka and met up with Yoshiro in Shin-Osaka. We headed over to Osaka station and he took me to eat at Yodobashi. I just had a discussion about Japanese and Foreign insurance companies at his house, and it is really stretching my Japanese. The dictionary Amy and Kel bought me is coming in handy. I was told that a lot of Japanese that die forget to tell their family that they have an insurance contract. Since the families need to declare that the person is dead and request to collect the money, many insurance claims go unclaimed. Yoshiro is looking good in his suit, totally different then how he looked in Toronto. I noticed that both Yoshiro and Akira are above average in height for Japanese. I never noticed before but now that I'm in Japan I think even Hong Kong people are slightly taller on average.

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