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Tuesday May 29, 2007 12:28 pm
Japan’s Golden Schachihoko Taxi
This is how one Japanese taxi company decided to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The Fuji Taxi Group in Nagoya has taken one taxi and painted it gold. Group President Kazuo Ohara from the company reports that it has cost them thousands of Yen in hopes of making it a good luck symbol “in a way comparable to Nagoya’s famous golden shachihoko (a mythical creature with the head of a tiger and the body of a carp.)” We think that it looks mighty fierce, but how much do you suppose the meter racks up per kilometer?
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| Japan Probe
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