The Surprising Clarity I Got From One Very Unclear Pregnancy Test

I am standing in a bathroom stall at a train station in Kyoto, staring at a Japanese pregnancy test. Since I do not understand Japanese, I have decided to interpret the results by figuring out which kanji most resembles a fetus or, failing that, a pregnant woman. Not only is this not how the Japanese kanji work, it is also ineffective: given the right angle and a little imagination, they all do. This was, as you can imagine, not a planned part of our trip. Rick Steves, travel sage that he...