Most streets in Japan do not have names.
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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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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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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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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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