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    In Japan, slurping loudly while eating noodles shows that the food is delicious. It's actually considered rude not to slurp!
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    Japanese Holdout
    Japanese Holdout
    After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.
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    In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.
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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 Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
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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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    Japanese schools do not have proms.
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    Nobuo Fujita
    Nobuo Fujita
    The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.
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