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Chubbiness, Japan's plus-size girl band: ten marshmallow girls chosen from 3,500 auditionees in 2013 as a pushback against the industry's worship of thinness.
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Suzuki's chairman donned a turban in New Delhi and talked history — Sanjay Gandhi, Maruti, and the Indian judge Japan still reveres.
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In late 2010, Sega installed urine-controlled video games in Tokyo urinals. Graffiti Eraser and a stream-strength contest followed. Ads ran after.
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Japan's justice minister Minoru Yanagida resigned in November 2010 after joking that his job required remembering only two phrases.
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A fully functional home in Tokyo, on a footprint of 8 square meters. What Japanese small-house design teaches about possessions and wellbeing.
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