Japan is full of traditions and iconography.
For a visitor, things like samurai and sumo, can be an easy access point to Japanese culture.
There are stranger things too, like toilets that have a hundred buttons and vending machines that dispense underwear.
Japan is a weird and wonderful place. But not every cliché about Japan is accurate and sometimes our views on this fascinating country get lost in translation.
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