Clare is from England but works in Japan. She compares the two countries.
TODD
Uh, Clare, you're from England.
CLARE
That's right.
TODD
Umm, how would you compare England and Japan?
CLARE
Umm, well, I think, let's take price-wise, they're actually quite similar. Well, not, maybe not England as a whole but, umm, say Japan and London is very similar, I found, uh, in supermarkets, and in housing, and things like that. Umm, In other respects, the people are certainly different. I mean, British people are renowned to be very polite as Japanese people are too, umm, and Japanese people are very helpful as well, probably more so than British people, I would say. Umm, mm, what else?
TODD
What about the weather?
CLARE
The weather? Uh, well, it's been raining a lot in Japan recently, so we could say that it's quite similar, although actually, when I was e-mailing my parents, they've been going on about how there hasn't been much rain the past couple of months and how they think there is going to be a drought. That typical British stereotype of the weather is then not true at the minute and it's probably wetter in Japan, but uh, yeah, I think climate-wise it's quite similar in terms of temperature. It's definitely much more humid here than at home.
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