Links to a few funny Japanese news articles...

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VENDING MACHINE CRAZE IN JAPAN 😊

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.html?eid=18


ANPANMAN!!! My favorite Japanese Animated Superhero!!!

http://www.jamco.or.jp/english/library/animation/an029800.html


DORAYAKI!!! My favorite Japanese Sweet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorayaki

Doraemon -- Japanese animated character and perhaps my soul mate because he LOVES DORAYAKI as much as me 😊
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon


Bonseki -- Japanese Art. I saw a display of Bonseki last week in Shizuoka and fell in love with it!!! It's beautiful and kind of mind boggling, I don't know how the artists make such beautiful pictures with powder from stones.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/noar/seiyu/emenu.htm

GENKI DRINKS -- Japanese version of Red Bull

http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/asian_medicine/genki.html

A BLOCK OF AZUKI (SWEET BEANS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Azuki_beans.JPG

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