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Entering Japan

This morning I needed to meet a friend at the Miami airport, which has the MIA code.  Went to Google maps to get driving directions,  typend MIA, but selected the wrong line from the autocompletetion dropdown – it was “ Mie Prefecture, Japan”.

Google Maps obediently offered me these funny directions below. I had to cross the USA, then sail to Japan. Especially I like the part “Entering Japan, Turn left”. After that I should  ” Turn left at 県道263号線” whatever it means.   It takes only  90 easy steps from where I am to Japan.

Happy New Year, everyone!japan


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Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.