Even in Kyoto

by the way, the general opinion (and I don't know how accurate this is) is that hubs should have the spoke holes slightly chamfered and the outer flange surface should be canted in towards the center of the wheel at about 6 degrees, to try to minimize the spoke bend, and the pulling spokes on the rear wheel, especially on the sprocket side, should be on the outside. (That one's subject to argument, because the outside sprocket side spokes are a: the highest tension, b: take the most strain during pedaling, and c: are the spokes that get damaged if you ever overshift off the large cog, so an argument is sometimes made that the push spokes should be on the outside as they'll last way longer after an overshift.)