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Very Helpful Vending Machine

Japan is a country of vending machines, its one of the first thing to hit visitors to this country "there are so many vending machines". They sell cold or hot drinks, dry or hot food, videos or clothes (or so I've heard about the last one).But this... ...full story at Mottekaero

from Mottekaero on Wed, Jan 09 2008

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