The chief attraction of Nikko is a complex of gaudily decorated shrines and temples constructed as the mausoleum of the Tokugawa shoguns who unified Japan following a long period of civil war.

This is the most irritating aspect of Blatter s FIFA. The corruption, the vote buying, the absurd thirst of soccer bosses for international prestige, the puffed out chests festooned with medals and decorations all of that is par for the course.

I feel it's sort of like the Vimalakirti Sutra, an ancient work from ancient India in which the Buddha appears at the beginning and a whole bunch of people come to see him from the biggest city in the area, Vaishali, and they bring some sort of jeweled parasols to make an offering to him.