The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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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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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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Most streets in Japan do not have names.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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