Hiroshima City

“Show me a man who is good at pool, and I’ll show you a man who had a misspent youth,” my father once said. It was one of those times that made me realize that my father was not the fountain of all knowledge that I had thought of him in my childhood, because neither he nor I are any good at pool. Though I may be pretty poor on the pool table, that doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy a game. I’ve spent many hours with beer in one hand, cue in the other, trying to figure out the mathematical equations that will get those little balls down the holes; those same equations that I once smugly informed my maths teacher that I would never need in the real world. Sorry, Miss Perkis. Although pool is not quite the pastime in Japan that it is in the US or many western countries, you can find a few pool halls across the nation, as well as some bars and cafes that have the odd table to keep punters entertained. You can also find some facilities with snooker tables – for any fans of the sport popular in the UK and…