Snoringly boring

摘要

TRY saying you don't live there, suggests one website. Pretend you don't have a television, says another. Such is the advice swapped online on how to avoid paying the "reception fee" that every home that owns a television must pay to nhk, Japan's public-service broadcaster. The excuses may have to get more inventive: on December 6th Japan's highest court ruled that the fee is constitutional, and found against a man who had refused to pay for the past 11 years.