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Miracle in Japan https://t.co/49vkfXxroL

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In Japan, children clean their own schools.

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There’s a TV show in Japan

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In Japan, you sit down at almost any restaurant.

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1890. A Turkish warship sinks off a poor fishing village in Japan. 🇹🇷

1890. A Turkish warship sinks off a poor fishing village in Japan. 🇹🇷 The villagers swim out in a typhoon. They pull 69 men out of the water. More than 500 are already gone. The…

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Blue bags up.

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The world spent 30 years calling Japan 'behind.'

The world spent 30 years calling Japan ‘behind.’ Still uses cash. Still uses fax. Still has tiny shops run by one old couple. Then the world got ‘ahead’ — and ended up lonely, ru…

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Your brain never stops telling your paralyzed legs to walk.

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Just the facts. 🇯🇵

Just the facts. 🇯🇵 Homicide rate: 0.23 per 100,000. Among the lowest on earth. Countries where you can drink straight from the tap: 11. Japan is one of them. Bullet trains: 60 yea…

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America, we have studied you.

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Japanese tourists don’t know they’re supposed to hate Texas.

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In Japan, you can drink the tap water.

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No one is watching.

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I returned to my dwelling to find a package resting against the door, unguarded and alone, like a we…

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A guy moved to Japan

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Japan didn’t invent precision.

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You’re running wrong.

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Japan has developed a 3D printer that can build a two-story house designed to withstand major earthq…

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The average Japanese person says one word about 40 times a day.

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At major train stations across Japan, a piano sits in the open hall and anyone may play it.

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A Hollywood actor walked into a Tokyo izakaya. 🍺

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In Japan, almost no civilian owns a firearm.

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Six years.

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Japan finally developed Terminator’s T-1000 material!

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In Japan, there’s a chain called Saizeriya.

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Every Japanese kid learns one rule

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In a poor village in old Japan, there was a boy too small and too weak for farm work.

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CNN once chose the 31 most beautiful places in Japan.

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I don’t even know how to describe this place.

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On the drive to my grandmother’s village, we passed a little wooden stand by the road.

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In Japan, a bathroom stall is a sealed fortress. Floor to ceiling. A castle for one.

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Look down at the yellow bumpy tiles on your train platform.

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66 percent.

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A Japanese engineer invented something you scan almost every day, then gave it away for free.

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It’s 6:25 in the morning. Summer. A small park somewhere in Japan.

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Things Japanese people say, and what they actually mean.

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Japan is 1.5% of the world’s population.

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Every summer, one small town in Gifu dances until sunrise. For thirty nights straight.

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Japan did it again.

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The next astronauts on the Moon won’t just walk.

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🚨 Japan’s Legendary Service Myth Has Finally COLLAPSED!! 🚨

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In Japan, you drop your wallet

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In Japan, school lunch is one of the happiest little ceremonies of the day — and the children run it…

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Watch what happens when a bullet train rolls into Tokyo Station.

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There’s a forest in Japan

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I just made a sports drink commercial! https://t.co/WnWn4FF1PO

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Look down.

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An old American man doesn’t explain himself.

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A 25-year-old from the suburbs visits Tokyo

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You buy a hot snack

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After the rain, people around the world look up and see the same rainbow.

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In Japan, students clean their own school.

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The first time you see it,

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Toyota’s newest product is not a car.

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A 48-year-old man, broke and out of work, built a shed in his backyard.

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In Japan, six-year-olds ride the train alone.

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Frankly speaking…

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This train is not touching the ground. At all.

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This is about a place in Japan built for one reason. To let a child run for the first time in their …

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Walk through any Japanese neighborhood

☕ Packed for the American road Swipe for gear →

A gnome guards the garlic. You will buy it for that. Gnome garlic keeper

10 outlets. The desk finally has enough. Desk clamp power strip

The pillow that argues with your neck, and wins. Neck pillow for the road

3 batteries. 9 amps. They never go dead. Battery tender

5W. GPS. IP67. The coast answers back. Marine radio

1600W. Japan plug. American machines. TESSAN voltage converter

ChatGPT on your wrist. Ten days. Swim with it. AOC watch

20ms. The game hears you first. AOC headphones