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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.
If you need a picture of a young woman blowing a conch shell or watching the end of the world, you’ll find them here.
Request met with mixed reaction from praising its frankness to pointing out the impossibility of it.
Did it just give in to its feline nature, or display a masterful understanding of human psychology?
They say you should spend at least three months’ salary when selecting an engagement meteorite, but this guy seems to have gone overboard.
Childhood is notoriously short in education-and-work-come-first Japan, but these tykes’ throwback idea of fun got them out of trouble with the law.
Japan’s infamous bar barkers often won’t take no for an answer, but one veteran says this response will stop them in their tracks.
Those ropes don’t seem so innocent when you read what’s on either side of them.
When discussing the gut-wrenching question, Japanese man looks outside the box…and into the heart of darkness.
Why isn’t Nintendo marketing its new system like this?
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