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Posted by Phil Bowermaster on February 1, 2010 05:10 PM | Permalink

I had heard that houses were numbered according to when they were built in Japan, but had never heard that blocks had names there.

I wonder if they name streets where there are no blocks.

I suspect that's why Americans do it that way. Most streets in America have no blocks. Just go out to rural America and you'll find that that's true.

A very interesting perspective from Japan.

And I thought U2 was referring to a metaphorical place.

Now we know they were talking about Japan. ;-)

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