Tokyo taxis put smoke-ban plan into high gear 08/03/2007 BY HOKUTO MATSUMURA AND NAOKI URANO THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Jumping on the no-smoking bandwagon, taxi companies in Tokyo plan to make their fleets completely smoke-free, despite a deluge of requests from... ...full story at Gaijin-in-Japan
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