A few years ago I watched a street performance in Ochanomizu: a post-war Japanese spiv, wearing a wide pin-stripe was selling bananas. Apparently in Japan now,

A few years ago I watched a street performance in Ochanomizu: a post-war Japanese spiv, wearing a wide pin-stripe was selling bananas. Apparently in Japan now, banana-selling is one of the strongest stereotypes of post-war capitalism - for all its good and ill.