Australian man: I've almost been killed by more people unloading goods from trucks on the side of the road than moving vehicles. Someone almost dropped a refrigerator on me the other day.

— Koenji, Suginami-ku, Tokyo. Overheard by a Japan Times On Sunday reader

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