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ohayou gozaimasu!

Japanese TV personalities really have it bad when they stay over in hotels. The staff are apparently all-too-willing to hand over a guest’s room keys in the name of entertainment. This results in early morning wake-up calls featuring mafia tommy-gun attacks, bazookas, and other really unpleasant ways to wake up.

Actually, if you want to see the TV programming I regularly contend with, you should keep up with TV in Japan, a blog devoted to such sanity-damaging broadcasts.

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