Today we're all about fashion: more T-shirts with offensive slogans, socks that look like they have another pair of socks inside, skirts worn over jeans and those feminine boys wearing low-cut pink tops.

This leads us to the beach and the Japanese ladies' nipple denial, before Andy tells us a tale of German nude bathing and its effect on repressed pallid English lads.

In part 4 of the Kansai Diary Andy ruminates on the horrors of mass Japanese tourism but finds solace in Kyoto's lesser visited sites, revealing on the way the trials of Zen monks in pursuit of enlightenment.

STAVKA (www.ardle.net/stavkahome.htm) play the laid back number 'Soluble Raincoat Dissolves', before talk turns to the bath house, and Dave takes us through the procedure for visiting a public bath in Japan. A brief comparison with the revolting practices found in Roman baths follows, before we run the whole gamut with the Japanese idiom 'pin kara kiri made'...

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