Japan Let's just start by saying that Japan is a wonderful country. Hands down, they are the most polite people I've ever met. The cities are clean, the crime rate is low, the food is good, the mass transit infrastructure is very efficient and there is a beautiful landscape to back it all up. Since a good chunk of Surly's business is done in Japan, all 5 of us embarked on a trip to find out why so many like-minded people exist in a land so far away. We visited our distributor in Nagoya and bike shops in Kurashiki, Hiroshima,…