Japan's capital Tokyo means "Eastern Capital".
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The Japanese, on average, are the shortest people.
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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, it is tradition for husbands to get a monthly allowance from their wives.
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In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into aquariums.
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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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