In the battle for a presence in your wallet this prepaid card does well by maintaining an ultra-slimmed down credit card form factor. 4,000 Yen …



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The black cat logo of the Kuro Neko Yamato delivery company. A compelling feature of their service is the ability to drop off and pick …
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Tape, extolling the value of fresh vegetables wrapped around a bunch of bananas. Whilst the tape does an admirable job of keeping the bananas bunched how …
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Local Sangenjaya dentist chair now includes a retrofitted flat screen TV (below) used for showing DVDs to fearful punters (Wallace & Gromit on heavy rotation …
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The practice of wandering through a neighbourhood – in this case Tokyo’s Shimo Kitazawa en mass and picking up litter. Common enough in Japan, sometimes …
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A Japanese phone user (in the shadows, center) conducts a call facing the wall – the body language of making a phone call.
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Shoe formation from a classroom’s worth of pupils taking off their slippers at the entrance to the room. The importance, or otherwise of wearing the …
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But only if you are Chinese speaking.
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A stall selling water by the sachet can be frequently spotted in and around Accra where many homes have limited access to mains water. Thought for …
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