


Washington Post, Wednesday, June 21, 2006
FUKUOKA, Japan --Japan
is actually re-catching nap fever, said Tadao Hori, a sleep researcher
at Hiroshima University. "I don't know if all the samurais were taking
siestas, but I can say that after Japan was exposed to the 'non-siesta'
countries in Europe -- England, Germany, France -- the idea of napping
gradually became taboo in Japan," Hori said. "Thankfully, that is now
changing."



