Now obviously on a blog dedicated to one of the most sophisticated cultural treasures to come out of the Land of the Rising Sun (I’m talking about Fudebakudo here, keep up at the back of the class) I’m hardly likely to suggest that the Japanese are one raisin short of the full cake mix. But . . . but . . . but . . . well, let’s just say, when Japan does fruitcake, it overdoes fruitcake:
Japanese Fruitcake valued at a cool $1.65 million
I have met a few Japanese fruitcakes in my time, some of whom got that way by having strayed too close to the edge of the martial arts’ sanity vortex. But they weren’t encrusted with diamonds.