Japan took the opposite approach of most countries - smoking allowed indoors, prohibited outdoors. Restaurants had smoking and non-smoking sections (which someone joked is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool). I don't see many restaurants with smoking anymore, but most bars still allow it.

Outside, they've built a lot of walled smoking areas. Sometimes they're completely enclosed rooms. Someone should make a photo collection of smokers' jails. They look hilarious, all crammed in there.

I'm tempted to say good riddance, I don't smoke, but then I'm sure one of you would start quoting the "First they came for the..." poem at me 😄

Also New York has this rule, I remember a policeman asking me to kill a cigarette because I wasn't in the right spot.

edit: I think you can walk and smoke though, you just can't be stationary

That would rock!

よろしくお願いします！

me too! (Tho, they got back like five days ago) — we have the same friends??

Please do! I'd say there's a decent amount of interest in the technological and speculative aspects, but still not much consideration of it as a serious investment, much less a medium of exchange.

There are small but active Japanese and expat groups.

TBBの１周年イベント行って、ビットコインに興味ある日本人こんなに多いんだ、って思わされてモチベーションもらいました！

Thanks!

I gotta get to publicizing