The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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The Gate Tower Building skyscraper in Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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Japan has the most vending machines in the world (5.52 million) which is more than the population of New Zealand.
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In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square so they are easier to stack and transport.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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