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Delivery drivers will stand two meters from your front door and watch as you pick up your pizza.
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Good-looking staff promise to identify your good points and shower you with compliments as you unwind after a long day.
Before Starbucks existed in Japan, there were kissaten coffeehouses. Now there’s the Starbucks kissaten.
New lineup will make you feel like you’ve stepped back in time to the heyday of Japanese coffeehouses.
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New Japanese KitKat combines two flavours in one for brand new taste sensation
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Japan ends travel ban on individual tourists, waives visa requirements for certain countries
One Piece’s Luffy spent years of manga’s publication without saying a word to one of his nakama
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