Pictorial of Japanese vending machines.

Posted by Les on Friday, April 23, 2004 at 09:17 AM. Read 11858 times. Tags:
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I love Japan and Japanese culture. Mainly because Japanese people in general are even bigger gadget geeks than I am and they’ll often take their obsessions to extremes.

Take, for example, vending machines. We have a fair amount of products that are sold via vending machines here in the States with pop (or soda) being the most common sort you’ll find. The Japanese have vending machines as well. Lots of them. Lots more than Americans have. Selling lots more stuff than you’d think possible. Everyone’s heard about how they even cater to dirty old men by having vending machines that sell used panties, but most folks don’t realize just how many other kinds of vending machines the Japanese have. They have lots of them for all sorts of products so of which are just bizarre, but some of which you wonder why they’ve not shown up here.

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ingolfson New Zealand (Aotearoa) Posted on 02/23/2007 at 01:49 AM

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mean the Isreali’s (Jews) dont constantly bitch about the Germans all the time do they?

No, we do that to ourselves now.

PKRB Australia Posted on 08/15/2007 at 12:08 AM

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“and has repented and apologised god knows how many times for what happened “
Ever heard of the Nanking massacre?
Or Unit 731?
Or Japanese textbook revision?
Or Yasukuni shrine?

In a nutshell:
-Japan murdered/raped/tortured/caniballised 300,000 (an estimate) innocent Chinese in Nanking
-Japan made a Unit 731 to test live Chinese and Koreans with biological experiments, eg. freezing their arm and letting it slowly defrost and rot, injecting diseases into them to test antidotes and then burnt their bodies to dispose of them. Then they bribed America with the results they found so America will help hide information about Unit 731
-Japan kidnapped thousands of women (of whom were mostly Koreans or Chinese) who were repeatedly raped by Japanese soldiers, and called ‘comfort women’
-Japan ‘revised’ textbooks to soften the info about these events, so later generations won’t know why Chinese and Koreans are so angry
-A Yasukuni Shrine was erected, to honour the dead Japanese war criminals, and visited by the president of Japan many times
-Japan made some apologies, and offered approximately 10,000 US each to some ‘comfort women’ as compensation for years of rape and torture. Now, how would YOU feel if your girlfriend was raped for years on end, by men she didn’t even know, and was offered 10,000 US as compensation? Is that sufficient?

Chloe United States Posted on 10/18/2007 at 05:53 PM

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anyone interested in buying mine?

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