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jeudi 24 septembre 2009

Will Miss #48 - sleep anywhere

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Some of the best pictures of life in Japan show people sleeping in strange ways and in strange places. Seeing the well-dressed, sophisticated people in Tokyo sleeping anywhere and everywhere is a quirk of life that always amuses me a bit.I'll miss seeing people bunk down wherever they feel like it.
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