FT.com / Home UK / UK - Absolutely everything Tokyo is notAbsolutely everything Tokyo is notBy David Pilling Published: December 15 2007 02:00 | Last updated: December 15 2007 02:00 One of the first things to know about Osaka is that people stand on the right of escalators and stride up on the left. This distinguishes the rough-and- ready western city from Tokyo, the eastern capital, where people do precisely the reverse. In Japan, where conventions carr
