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At fast food restaurants, you buy a ticket from a vending machine and give it to the cooks who prepare what you selected.


Many places specialize in one particular type of food and will advertize it prominently. This one serves crab.


This place serves octopus.


This one must serve Gaijin (foreigners).


Japanese consumer culture is filled with interesting translations.


Familiar pharses and characters are often appropriated in unique ways.


For the waifish thin look.


Do not worry about interpretations, they just think it looks cool.


Hmmm...

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Is this evidence that recent US foreign policy has not endeared us to the world?

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