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Toys made Japan. And me.

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Jun 14, 2023
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Some things never change: a Japanese toy store, 1876.

An interesting headline from Kyodo News: Japan toy sales top 1 trillion yen for 1st time, led by foreign tourists. That’s $7 billion USD worth of toys sold over the course of a year. On the one hand, perhaps this shouldn’t surprise: Japan has been …

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