After being in England for so long I had been in an English mindset, so what better way to get into the Japanese one than to visit DisneyLand!! It was, as usual, really cool! Disney really knows how to motivate kids, the staff, the production and everything are first class. It’s also cool what they do with their staff, everyone is a “cast member” – if you’re not genki, you have to play the part of someone who is! Now if they could only put all that into the education market it’d be fantastic. But of course the problem at the moment is that the you’d never recoup the production costs… Speaking of which I don’t know who said that Japan is in bad economic shape, but they obviously haven’t told the Japanese public! They were just buying things like crazy!! You couldn’t believe how much omiyage was being sold!! Wow.