Even with a recession, Tokyo remains one of the world's most expensive cities. From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: December 15, 1998| Author: Solomon, Alan | COPYRIGHT 1998 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

TOKYO _ The first thing you notice about Tokyo, aside from the large numbers of Japanese living here, is that they have these really cool cell phones roughly the size of Bic lighters, and everybody _ including very small children _ carries one. I understand how they work for little kids, but how normal-headed adults listen and talk back without moving the things up and down their cheeks became our first official Mystery of the Orient.

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