Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education continues mental gymnastics and insists that undercuts cause harmful incidents and accidents.
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Our reporter Seiji ventures back to Ueno’s bug vending machine to learn if crickets and grasshoppers taste the same.
We take a chance with a random selection from a machine that sells tarantulas and dung beetles for you to eat.
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The Big Mac Jr., the classic Big Mac, the Grand Big Mac and the Giga Big Mac are like a happy Big Mac family made of meat and buns.
Manga Genic promises you the eyes of an anime star, but can our reporter handle that kind of power?
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