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Japan Pins Tourism Hopes on PDA
Sammy at Palm Addict writes "According to Australia News.com, Japan will start lending PDA's to foreign visitors to help tourists get to grips with the country. The aim is to make Japan more attractive to foreign tourists, who are often put off by the country's language barrier. The PDA's will be loaded with travel information and translation services as part of a tourism promotion scheme. "Japan's tourism authority will lend the PDAs containing Chinese, Korean and English software, to selected tourists who land at Narita Airport near Tokyo from February through March to test the response" Japan's transport ministry said."
No, no, no,
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USA: They knock you down [blame you] and steal the PDA [blame society for their lack of income]. Thus concluding that none of the actions were their own responsiblitiy.
Canada: They knock you over [apologize] but don't help you up [don't really care] and then swipe your PDA when you're not looking [finder keepers]. When caught they try to laugh it off and say "it was only a PDA".
Mexico: Well they're all drunk so they'd stumble into you [pissed] would see the PDA and not know what it is. The flashy lights though would trigger some primal instinct and they would steal it and try to fence it for some more urea contaminated drinks.
But let's get international:
France: They would run you down with one of those 400lbs minis. Then back up, steal the PDA and mutter something about your heritage why driving away.
England: They would hoof ya with a good soccer kick, write "liverpool forever" on your chest and steal the PDA to pay for a pint.
Switzerland: Would let you walk by and watch on as Canada, the USA, Mexico, France and England beat the shit out of you. They wouldn't need the PDA because everyone knows when you're hiding in the hills you don't need electricity.
I kid because I care.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
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[Credit: Dave Barry, "Dave Barry Does Japan"]
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second question, i had 4 japanese girls come and ask me if i was searching for a girlfriend...interpret that as you will, that is all i have to say about that
Time to figure out what the Kanji on the back your T-shirt says?
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
a card saying:
- Please. Mr. Japanese-san How much for the batteries?
In case the pda goes flat...
Are they going to fill the country with Semacodes?
I think tourists will have a hard time just recognising and inputing those Kana characters...
You are aware that the Japanese language has over 2000 kanji which you are expected to read if you are a japanese citizen?
Psh, what FUD. You only need to know 1900 to get a jist of the newspaper.
after reading this stupid and obviously wrong post i think my i.q. actually dropped