Perry E. Metzger [19/05/08 14:22 -0400]:
You may be right. I could be mis-remembering. My last trip to Japan was five or six years ago (amazing how time flies...) I remember it being useful to recognize the box-with-axle-like symbol for "car", but perhaps my recollection is tricking me.
Lots of Japan has been going bilingual, and even (gasp) hiring non japanese. Thaths and I met up with Shradha (quite a character on livejournal) a couple of years back when she was in kyoto - she's in the bay area now Did a post grad course in Japan (Keio U I think) and then worked as an exec assistant in the office of the chairman at Sanyo. Speaks fluent japanese, got quite immersed in japanese culture .. Got reminded of that seeing an IP post some hours back about how Japan is finally, reluctantly, hiring more engineers from abroad.
