The lecture we had today was about the developmental or protectionism form that the Japanese government has taken post WWII. We learned about how the government uses tariffs and other tools to prevent outside merchandise from entering the country and protecting their own companies. The government has a bigger role in their markets. It was interesting to learn about how protective they are of their companies.
After the lecture we went to Akiabara or "Electric town". There are a lot of electronic shops and comic/animae stores in this district. They didn't really have anything different in the way of technology and gadgets from what we have. We did go into a huge duty free shop that was full of all different types of merchandise mostly tourist things. They also have huge arcades that are five stories tall.
We took the train to an arena for Sumo. This event was amazing. We watched for three hours and saw many different rounds. They started the event with smaller more novice sumo wrestlers and towards the end the arena filled up and the crowd started to get more excited for the more famous players. They can take a few minutes to start a match as the wrestlers try to psych each other out by getting in the starting position and then getting up and walking out of the ring. They have to throw salt every time they enter the ring. Each match can last between one and twenty seconds. Some of them get hurt if they fall off the platform but that only happened to two of them. The event is broadcasted on TV like any other sporting event.
Last night I ate at a beef and rice fast food restaurant and we took it easy as we had to study for our quiz.
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