Drawing on the history of Blue Laws and Prohibition, Yandle noted that public policies tend to be supported by bootleggers, who saw their incomes increase as a result of a particular policy (as bootleggers did under Prohibition and under Blue Laws), and Baptists, who supported public policies for moral reasons (Baptists tended to support prohibition and Blue Laws because they believed that alcohol was evil).
Nagoya is located along the Tokaido Shinkansen route between Tokyo and Osaka. To the west are Gifu and Kyoto, and to the east are Hamamatsu and Shizuoka. 1  A one-way ride from Tokyo is about 1 hour, 40 minutes via Nozomi (Â¥10780) and between 1 3/4 and 2 hours via Hikari (Â¥10580).
Kobe (ç¥æ¸å¸, KÅbe-shi, Japanese pronunciation: [koËêbe]) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of HyÅgo Prefecture. It is located on the southern side of the main island of HonshÅ«, on the north shore of Osaka Bay and about 30 km (19 mi) west of Osaka. With a population around 1.5 million, the city is part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The earliest written records regarding the region come from the Nihon Shoki, which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress JingÅ« in AD 201.