*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> It's a bit less than a USA dollar but for functioanl, think if a yen 
 CS> as a penny so 100 yen is a dollar.  It actually something like 95 
 CS> cents just now.

 CS> Now stateside that same soda would be 50cents or 75cents but in Japan 
 CS> at a normal machine would be 120 yen to 150 yen (size dependant).

MK> More here I think.  I buy fruit juice instead.

Same price here for fruit juices.  The machines are all over the place and
get ¨a serious workout come summer which we are pretty much in now. 
Average temps ¨are now 35C and a bit upwards of that.  Will hit 40-43C in
the next month and ¨stay there til mid-Octoberish then chill down in a mere
month so that by early ¨December, we potentially get snow.

Japan is situated so that it really does have 4 distinct seasons although
as ¨far south as I am, the fall is sorta short while summer lingers through
parts ¨of what other people have as 'fall'.  The variation in temps took
time to get ¨used to.  Most places are simply not 35C and upwards for 4
months of the year, ¨and 0-10C 4 months of the year (with frequent forays
well below that for a week ¨or so).
                                       xxcarol

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