Either (a) the restaurant "Imperial Viking" in the Imperial Hotel was the first restaurant in Japan which served buffet-style meals, or (b) the Japanese have trouble saying the Swedish word "smörgåsbord", or both, so the Japanese word for "buffet" is "viking".
If one plays the Azumanga Daioh episode where the class visits Okinawa and one selects the Japanese audio, one can hear Yomi use the term...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
If one plays the Azumanga Daioh episode where the class visits Okinawa and one selects the Japanese audio, one can hear Yomi use the term...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012