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From: benkasminbullock@gmail.com (Ben Bullock)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,fj.life.in-japan
Subject: Re: Bye-bye WaiWai
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:42:35 +0000 (UTC)
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In sci.lang.japan Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:

> (Only good-news items about kimono dressing and cherry blossom from
> now on.)

> (Tickets for the public seppuku go on salenext week...)

It was surprising to me that something as blatantly sleazy as WaiWai
was being published on the Mainichi news site in English & I did
wonder how long it was going to last.