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Well, I’ve decided to name and shame yesterday’s rat-infested restaurant. Apparently, all restaurants are required by law to get thoroughly cleaned out once a year, so they are obviously cutting corners there. They have a problem, they are aware of it and clearly are not taking any steps to do anything about it. So, the restaurant in question is (drum-roll please): Didi’s curry house on Higashioji Dori. It’s a shame because I did like their veggie curry – but no more! Rats in restaurants is very, very wrong.

Here’s a couple of links. First off, there’s fresh review of Tsurugi with some arty pictures, up on Deep Kyoto that I’ve just finished.

Also, watch this and tell me you don’t want to see it too:
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And I’ve been reading about a Japanese Government decision to tone down reports that the army ordered Okinawan civilians to commit mass suicide at the war’s end: LINK

Now earlier this week, a group of MPs from the right-wing ruling party claimed China had exaggerated the number of people killed by Japanese troops in Nanjing in 1937. LINK

And Prime Minister Shinzo Abe drew condemnation abroad earlier this year after he questioned whether there was any proof that Japan’s military coerced women to work as sex slaves during the war. LINK

Which all follows a controversial new law that enforces the teaching of patriotism in schools. LINK

Not to mention ongoing plans to revise the country’s pacifist constitution: LINK

Is anyone else seeing a pattern here?