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much antique furniture, in Japan, people live in very new houses. They don’t use antiques in their daily life. If Japanese people have antiques. they don’t use them except as ornaments to cherish.”
He has a good natured laugh for the Americans who've traded in their gas guzzling behemoths for what they believe are small, fuel efficient Japanese cars. “I’ve seen many Japanese cars —Datsuns and Toyotas. They seem to be very small here but they would be big sized cars in Japan.”
And gas prices that provoke outraged screams in the U.S. seem reasonable to the Birds’ visitor. "It’s cheap here in comparison with our country and prices are going up and up,” Minoru reported.
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