Re: [microsound] Finding it in Japan

[Bill Ashline <bashline@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Edward Roda" <ejroda@xxxxxxxx>

> When I was in Tokyo looking hard for a merchant that I was referred to,
> located in Aoyama,
> the policeman went inside his hut, looked at the map, then came out and 
> told
> me how to get there.
> He never showed me the map.  His directions were too vague, but I got
> closer.
> I went into the Post Office, and they photocopied me a map, and circled my
> destination.
> I would never have found my destination without the Post Office.


Thanks to the Japanese occupation, we have the same problem in Korea.  
Addresses are postal codes and it means that without detailed directions 
(and even with them much of the time) you can't find a goddamn thing.  Add 
to that a population growth from 500,000 to 11 million between 1920-1995 in 
the largest city, and the according geographic problems, and the reason for 
the problem becomes apparent.  It's always worth recalling that Japan has 
half the population of the US in the space of Montana.  That and there are 
no square blocks in Asia anywhere.
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