We visit the new Tomodachi ga Yatteru Cafe in Harajuku, where staff are paid to pose as your friends.
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Channel your favourite character on the Central Perk couch with special menu items and Japan-exclusive goods.
Extras will be on-hand to provide the image of a social life for your image-based social network.
In an age where some people have hundreds, or even thousands, of friends on social networking sites, rustling up just three of them will get you a hefty discount.
To all of our lovely women readers out there – have you ever felt betrayed by another female friend? Perhaps you were deceived and taken advantage of. Perhaps the coworker you trusted as your confidant was surreptitiously spreading scandalous rumors about you behind your back. Whatever the situation was, it was sure to have been an unpleasant experience.
A recent survey on popular Japanese site Mynavi Woman asked its female readers the same question as above. Dozens of women shed light about backstabbing friends and unbelievable scenes from the past. Have any of the following situations ever happened to you?
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