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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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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The Japanese, on average, are the shortest people.
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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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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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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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