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COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd.
(From Mainichi Daily News)
Only in Japan, where Italian cuisine is frequently flavored with corn, mayonnaise and Tabasco sauce, could a Hokkaido pizza chain make national headlines -- for opening the country's first coin-operated dogwash.
Owners can shampoo Spot for just 500 yen and another 200 yen gets Butch blow-dried.
Farmers a little more to the south in Sendai were going bananas over the "monkey forecast" that told them in advance where they should go to counter the marauding Japanese macaques that had plundered their crops for years.
"We don't have hard figures to prove how effective it is, but it certainly is working," a local official said.
In something that's become a tradition in Japan, also copping the raw end of the stick were whales. Claiming that rescue efforts of beached whales were "too costly and dangerous," a government panel recommended that they be eaten instead....
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