- 14 Sep 2005
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This question is really starting to irritate, because for the life of me I can't think of a single sensible answer:
Why do Japanese school fields (football pitches) etc. have no grass?
And why, for that matter, is there hardly any grass in the parks too?
I see clumps of the stuff here and there, among a few weeds, moss and whatnot. But where is the real grass?
Can they not afford motorized mowers or something?
I can't help thinking that football is an entirely different game when played on compacted earth - more bounce, for example.
Plus, when it rains, the fields become mudpits, whereas if they were gas, they'd still be usable.
A friend of mine who used to work in a school told me that once a term or whatever, the entire school spent a day scratching and pulling out any evidence of flora and fauna from the school field. No explanation, let alone question, as to why was ever forthcoming. At the end of this momentously well spent day, there'd be a beautiful dry brown rectangle.
I have a theory that the Japanese hate nature. Let me be wrong!
Why do Japanese school fields (football pitches) etc. have no grass?
And why, for that matter, is there hardly any grass in the parks too?
I see clumps of the stuff here and there, among a few weeds, moss and whatnot. But where is the real grass?
Can they not afford motorized mowers or something?
I can't help thinking that football is an entirely different game when played on compacted earth - more bounce, for example.
Plus, when it rains, the fields become mudpits, whereas if they were gas, they'd still be usable.
A friend of mine who used to work in a school told me that once a term or whatever, the entire school spent a day scratching and pulling out any evidence of flora and fauna from the school field. No explanation, let alone question, as to why was ever forthcoming. At the end of this momentously well spent day, there'd be a beautiful dry brown rectangle.
I have a theory that the Japanese hate nature. Let me be wrong!