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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. …
Toyama museum not for wimps
One day, Pangzi came home complaining of bruises after sports. During my time, we picked ourselves up and fought on even on one good limb. Are children made of glass nowadays? In order to show Pangzi real glass, I took him to a Toyama museum, where glass art was the centrepiece. The Toyama Glass Art Museum is …
Megaweb of lies
“Daddy, why don’t you buy a Jaguar? That’s my favourite car,” asked Pangzi. “Well, money and I are not friends. Money tends to stay away from me,” I said, hoping the conversation would end right there. “But you can buy an old Jaguar. It won’t be expensive!” he reasoned. There was something fundamentally wrong about …
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