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Japanese Twitter gets a good laugh out of these great examples of a common elementary school exercise. Happy Father’s Day!
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If you wanna know, if he loves you so, it’s in his… political engagement, that’s where it is.
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Programmer from overseas leaves change out in public to test Japanese honesty, ends up with more money than he started with.
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