After a month of visiting auspicious sites, Seiji’s luck levels should be maxed out, right?
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This little device could almost always be found in cafés in Japan throughout the latter part of the Showa Period (1926-1989).
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On 18 June in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, 48-year-old Kaoru Kurosawa came home to find a 1.5-meter Japanese rat snake on the second floor. Kurosawa quickly took a picture of the serpent before it slithered down a gutter and escaped.
Now, netizens across Japan are heralding this event as a sign of good things to come for Japan or at least for Kurosawa.
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