> I don't know if this is actually true, but I'm told that *everything* is 
> quite small in Japan. Including the people...

Oh no, their cell phones are definitely bigger than ours, on the whole.  The 
Japanese market prefers bigger chunkier phones with huge displays (you try 
fitting more than 6 Japanese characters onto a small low-resolution 
display!) and many many features, some more useful than others.  Like this:

http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=5793

> (I hear claims of the opposite for the USA - but I'm pretty sure they're 
> exaggerating.)

Their cars (and trucks and whatever else you call them) seemed way bigger to 
me.  That's what I noticed the most, when some guy got out of his 4x4, and 
only when I saw that the 4x4 was higher than him (he wasn't short) did I 
realise how huge his 4x4 was.  Or when someone parked a Range Rover next to 
a few American 4x4s, and it looked tiny!  And then I saw some old woman get 
out of what looked like a really old worn-out car, it was *huge*, like take 
a Ford Mondeo and double it in every dimension (but make the suspension 2x 
bouncier).  It also said 5.4L on the back, which I guess is needed to just 
move the thing :-)

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