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World’s most elegant kickball game held at Kyoto’s Imperial Palace【Video】
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Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2023 - Tweet
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Check out the ball-handling skills of classical Japanese aristocrats with this new video
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Preston Phro
Jan 9, 2016
Ronaldo might be an amazing player, but we’d like to see him try playing in the clothes of classical Japanese aristocrats.
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