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England and Japan

Clare is from England but works in Japan. She compares the two countries.

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Todd: Clare, you're from England.

Clare: That's right.

Todd: How would you compare England and Japan?

Clare: Well, I think.. let's take price-wise, they're actually quite similar. Well, not maybe not England as a whole but say Japan and London is very similar. I found in supermarkets, in housing and things like that.

In other respects, the people are certainly different. I mean, British people are renowned to be very polite as Japanese people are too. Japanese people are very helpful as well, probably more so than British people I would say. Mm, what else?

Todd: What about the weather?

Clare: The weather? Well, it's been raining a lot in Japan recently so we could say that it's quite similar, although actually, when I was e-mailing my parents they've been going on about how there hasn't been much rain the past couple of months and how they think there is going to be a drought. That typical British stereotype of the weather is not true at the minute and it's probably wetter in Japan. But yeah, I think that climate wise it's quite similar in terms of temperature. It's definitely much more humid here than at home.

Todd: OK. Thanks a lot.

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