Still No Daylight Savings Time in Japan
One of the fascinating differences between Japan and the rest of the world is the adoption of Daylight Savings Time (DST). The US and most of the West has it; the Japanese don't. Alexander Jacoby in the Japan Times argues that DST offers huge benefits for the environment and would even provide a fillip to Japan's consumer spending. Jacoby traces the Japanese antipathy to DST to its apparently ham-fisted introduction, soon reversed, during the U.S. Occupation.

Maybe. But no Japanese I've ever met has expressed regret that Japan does not have DST. Indeed, Japanese in the U.S. find the whole system of pushing clocks back and forth weird, disconcerting, and difficult to get used to. I would be shocked if the Japanese adopted DST anytime soon, although I have been surprised that the Japanese have taken up anti-smoking measures as quickly as they have.