11.   Its state-run television regularly shows uniformed officials setting afire huge bonfires of pirated books and cassettes or running heavy machinery over caches of confiscated pirate videotapes.

12.   The mob ignited a huge bonfire, burning motorcycles, typewriters and chairs looted from the station, and threatened to throw their hostages in the fire.

13.   Fireworks in Japan are almost exclusively set off at the height of summer and the closest New Year custom here is the lighting of huge bonfires at temples.