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| − | === Pierrot === |
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| − | Pierrot, French clown, has a black teardrop under one eye. |
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| − | === photo booth pictures === |
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| − | The Japanese is プリクラ; purikura, short for "Print Club." You take photos in a booth and get photo stickers. |
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| − | === keychain mascot === |
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| − | The Japanese is キャラクターもの; kyarakutaamono, seems to be small, cute keychain mascots, from a quick google. |
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| − | === prefectural road === |
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| − | Prefectures are akin to states in the US. So prefectural roads are like state highways -- meant for traffic within the prefecture. |
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| − | === wordplay === |
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| − | 語呂合わせ "goro-awase" literally means "joining word-sounds" ... basically games with words/numbers. For numbers in particular, you can make sentences, and usually the sentences are rude/shocking. Some examples given in the [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AA%9E%E5%91%82%E5%90%88%E3%82%8F%E3%81%9B Japanese Wikipedia article] are: |
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| − | 427 = "死にな" = "shinina" = "shininasai" = "die (command)", and |
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| − | 37564 = "皆殺し" = "mina-goroshi" = "everyone killed; the murder of everyone" = "mass murder; total annihilation" |
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