Cars and clothes at the Toyota museum

Toyota has been such a successful and dominant automobile manufacturer that not many outside Japan realise that it started out supplying textile machinery. “Daddy, what do you mean Toyota makes clothes?” Pangzi asked in disbelief. That’s when a visit to the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya would help clarify a few things. …

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Pulling a fast one at the railway park

When Pangzi knew I was planning to take him to Japan, he asked, “Daddy, can we see make love?” I thought a visit to the SCMAGLEV and Railway Park in Nagoya was inevitable. “Okay, you win. On the first day we’ll go to a railway park,” I promised reluctantly. What he didn’t know was I didn’t …

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