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I love Japan, its quite a unique country. I haven't seen anyone out on dates with dolls, and I haven't seen any of those naughty vending machines either.

it's a great place, and these tings are exaggerated, but they do exist
i was careful enough to say very niche hehe, not limited to japan either, I seen reports of this in china too
I suppose we all have weird subcultures if it's niche enough though, at no level was i implying this is somewhat representative of mainstream japanese culture