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To: E who wrote (2256)1/17/1999 9:15:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 13015
 
Its true, I'm afraid, and has been going on for some years.

The Japanese still have fat-man wrestling (sumo) but I haven't seen any topless female sumoresses since pictures in 1884.

Many Japanese fruits are grown on trees in individual paper bags.
Japan still has sword-testing contests (execution swords). The winner
is he who cuts through the most rolled up bamboo mats.

Some companies make secret payments to their employees outside of the pay packets that Japanese men take home and hand over to their wives.

Some specialists believe that Japanese intestines are substantially longer than gaijin intestines.

Japan once had a shogun (warlord) who outlawed the killing of dogs and required all dogs to be supported at public expense.

It is believed by some that Japanese snow cannot be effectively skied by foreign skis.

After world war II Japanese government clerks usually won computation competitions using abacuses against U.S. Army clerks using electric calculators (Marchants)
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