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japan and america: differences in focus, part 419 of 32,119

Americans get hot and sweaty over seeing screenshots of HALO characters in the Dead or Alive 4 game. For the same game, during a recent trip to Osaka I saw a major electronics and games retailer, Sofmap, dedicate a 60 inch plasma display to showing an HDTV freeze frame of a girl-on-girl battle that featured a panty shot.
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