Huh? Japan rejected US-occupation-mandated Daylight Saving Time because salarymen could not start their drinking on company money until after it is dark.
[INDENT]Keeping time
...in search of the hour we lost this morning...
Sunday Herald. March 26, 2006
....Daylight Saving Time is one good example of what Rooney [Curator of Timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich] is talking about, applied haphazardly across most industrial nations (but not Japan, where the Ministry of Education are concerned that lighter evenings would distract children from homework)....more..[/INDENT]