8.17.2007

Quick Facts about Japan


- Unlike any other Asian country, you can drink the tap water in Japan.

- Travelers must use Japanese Yen – in Japan no one likes to accept United States currency.

- Tipping is practically unheard of Japan. All restaurants and hotels add a 10% service charge and a 5% consumption tax to the final bill.
After leaving a tip at a nice restaurant in Kyoto this past April, two of the restaurant staff literally ran after me and my family believing we had left the money accidentally!

- Reflecting Japan's egalitarianism, CEOs in Japan earn on average 60 times their average employee's pay in contrast to the U.S., where the average CEO makes 450 times the pay of their average employee.

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