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This multi-block queue has to be seen to be believed, as people spend hours lining up due to traditional beliefs.
After a month of visiting auspicious sites, Seiji’s luck levels should be maxed out, right?
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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