Cars are like geta. For the Mongols, horses are geta; for Japan, bicycles are geta. Petroleum civilization: one automobile for every four people.

July 1939 (during travel in the Seattle/Portland area), Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary, trans. from Japanese. In Dōshisha Hōgaku (Doshisha Law Review), Vol. 73 No. 1 (2021)