Byakuren's too nice, now the tengus are cashing in...

I was just thinking how people often read the news that comes in the morning with their morning meal. Some restaurants keep daily papers around already paid for.

Wait, I thought Cafe Myouren Temple already subscribed to Aya's papers! Either way, they now have two new devotees.

The_Vault_Dweller said:
Some restaurants keep daily papers around already paid for.

It's common practice where I live. The places without these are usually roadside carts (don't have the space for the newspaper stand) or recently opened shops (don't have any papers in stock to begin with).

The_Vault_Dweller said:

I was just thinking how people often read the news that comes in the morning with their morning meal. Some restaurants keep daily papers around already paid for.

I read the news in my cellphone; I barely eat outside. The only newspaper that I read is the one that I work in.

Darth_Sirov said:

Byakuren's too nice, now the tengus are cashing in...

To Aya's credit, she seems more concerned about how easily taken advantage of Byakuren is.

This actually happens pretty often to me. My friends made faces just like Aya and Hatate when I accepted their offer, which I thought was not that big of a deal, but to them or people in general were quite ridiculous. Maybe I'm just ignorant.
But of course, I'm nowhere as generous as Byakuren.

Pronak said:

I read the news in my cellphone; I barely eat outside. The only newspaper that I read is the one that I work in.

In Japan newspapers are still quite common. I once had a tech-phobic boss that would buy me English newspapers so I wouldn't "read the computer news" (aka what I would tell him I was doing online during my breaks).

I've never looked for them in cafes here, though. It might be common practice in Japan too.

IchiMashiPotatos said:

In Japan newspapers are still quite common. I once had a tech-phobic boss that would buy me English newspapers so I wouldn't "read the computer news" (aka what I would tell him I was doing online during my breaks).

I've never looked for them in cafes here, though. It might be common practice in Japan too.

It's pretty impressive the amount of tecnophobics in Japan considering the fact that a lot of people around the world see this country as a meca of tecnology and computers.

Even my 80+ years old boss makes an effort to learn how to use his cellphone and check the news in his computer.

Pronak said:

It's pretty impressive the amount of tecnophobics in Japan considering the fact that a lot of people around the world see this country as a meca of tecnology and computers.

Even my 80+ years old boss makes an effort to learn how to use his cellphone and check the news in his computer.

That's one common misconception about Japan. Once you actually live there for a while, it'll hit you just how not up to date the majority of Japanese people are in terms of technology. It has something to do with how expensive new tech is in Japan, and also that people don't really like change, so updating their technology isn't really desirable to them.

Only in the big cities really do you see a lot of new tech, but even then it's not guaranteed.

Farran said:

That's one common misconception about Japan. Once you actually live there for a while, it'll hit you just how not up to date the majority of Japanese people are in terms of technology. It has something to do with how expensive new tech is in Japan, and also that people don't really like change, so updating their technology isn't really desirable to them.

Only in the big cities really do you see a lot of new tech, but even then it's not guaranteed.

Exactly. Lots of people there aren't used to their own technology, especially when they have some crazy stuffs. Here's an article (Cracked, so don't look if you don't like it). This is pretty much because, like in other parts of the world, some people don't like changes. I still use Nokia C1-01, since I'm not really into gadgets. Besides, it does its job well enough.