A friend (cb at lim.nl) has sent you an article:
Luxury gap: how Japan turned into a nation of the haves and the have-nots http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/luxury-gap-how-japan-turned-into-a-nation-of-the-haves-and-the-havenots-778677.html In a planet slowly cooking in greenhouse gases, it is one of the more depressing urban sights: a 2.9 tonne, petrol-guzzling monster inching down some of the narrowest, busiest streets in Asia. Long the preferred transport accessory of US hip-hoppers and young corporate titans, the Hummer can increasingly be seen trundling through the hipper districts of Tokyo, being waved away from car parks built for family Toyotas and Nissans.