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From beer bottles to Pokémon and short-skirted anime girls, these Japanese students know how to celebrate their last day at university.
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25-year-old politician draws on his own experiences of isolation during campaign.
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Request met with mixed reaction from praising its frankness to pointing out the impossibility of it.
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