Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with Japan Tobacco being half owned by the government, but while smoking is plainly becoming less passable in public places, it’s still manners more than anything that matter in Japan; meaning mobile ashtrays are a must.
![Japanese portable ashtray](https://www.tokyotimes.org/archives/portable_ashtay.jpg)
However, regardless of how convenient these contraptions can be, their purported portable properties,
![Japanese portable ashtray](https://www.tokyotimes.org/archives/rotary_ashtray_box.jpg)
perhaps aren’t always as practical as proclaimed.
![Japanese portable ashtray](https://www.tokyotimes.org/archives/rotary_ashtray.jpg)
hoyab says
I thought various stuff things were somewhere else.