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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According to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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In Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
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Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
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In Japan, it is tradition for husbands to get a monthly allowance from their wives.
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