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...items they think will be scarce, like toilet paper and detergents. Caches of perhaps as much as 500,000 gallons of oil and oil products have been illegally hidden round the country. Earlier this month, a stray golf ball led to the discovery of one hidden store near Osaka; when the golfer scrambled down a ravine in search of the ball, he also found 625 drums of oil. Already two taxi drivers have committed suicide because of fears that the fuel shortage would put them out of business...
...industry touched off a sugar-buying panic that spread across the whole country last week. Housewives are still trying to lay in supplies of toilet paper after a rumor spread about a forthcoming dearth of that staple. A woman was trampled to death in a toilet-paper stampede in Osaka...
...restaurant, patronized by the area's Japanese population, is divided into three parts roughly according to the kind of food served in each. The most exotic, and least crowded, section is the raw fish, or sushi, bar. Osaka's sushi is as good as any you are likely to find in the Northeast...
...most popular section, Osaka offers teppan yaki, a preparation of bite-size pieces of tender beef broiled in front of you on an open stove. The third section, with standard restaurants and chairs, serves the traditional Western favorites--sukiyaki, teryaki and tempura. All full meals are accompanied by a delicious Japanese soup called miso, sunemono, a crab meat salad, and all the green tea you can drink. Of the liquors, the sake and plum wine are particularly worth trying...