Copper Beggar

Electric cables have been stolen throughout Japan recently.

In 1404 Japan started trade with Ming Dynasty in China. Shogun then wanted millions of Chinese copper money that prevailed throughout Asia those days. Instead he sent tens of gold in amazingly inequivalent exchange rate. Abundant gold was used to the surface of the Golden Pavillion. At that time Japan was able to come up relatively lots of gold.

Time has passed and the time is 2007. Japan became a country of full of copper. Much copper was used in electric cables and now started being stolen and sent back to China to obtain a bit of money.

Mean Japanese, let's not steal such a mean public property!

Heh

[Stargoat]

This happens every time the price of copper goes up.

Re:

[mercedo]

One Japanese dime is made of copper. If the price of copper went up more than the value of one dime, people would start collapsing them, resulting in disappearing of the dimes. One Japanese cent is made of aluminium. Cents would be disappearing by the same reason if the price of this metal surged. In the end coins will be vanishing eventually, and I don't think it just a hypothesis in an imaginary world.

By the way, thank you for your recommendation of my journal in your article.