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Japanese goodness



  • They take poetry seriously in Japan. Both a retiring Prime Minister, and a man sentenced to death for the nerve gas attacks wrote haiku (well, actually only one was a haiku), which were published in major newspapers. They also mention how kamikaze pilots would write haiku before their final mission. I once saw a book that was about this phenomenon of Japanese writing poems just before they die. What a great idea.
  • The Japanese also take toys very seriously. And it seems that stuffed animals aimed primarily at adults are on the rise there. One 43 year old Japanese corporate employee explains about one of his stuffed animals:
      “He’s more like family,” Koshimoto says of his Primopuel, a doll that talks like a five-year-old boy. “When I’m tired from work or other things, I hold his hand and he asks me things like ‘Are you OK?’ and that makes me happy.”






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