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In Japan, Santa Claus doesn't just sit on a big cozy chair in a fluffy red outfit saying "ho ho ho." Pictured above is National's electric green Santa Claus exhibit that just went up this weekend in Tokyo. And pictured below is Swimming Santa, who's hanging with the sharks and stingrays at an aquarium in Osaka until Christmas Eve.
And scaring the crap out of that poor little kid in yellow.
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In 2008, Chronicle published my book: Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan.
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