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Trash Can Robots Are Now Roaming Shinjuku Station

Finding a garbage can in Shinjuku Station has (maybe) gotten easier. On September 8, JR East began sending autonomous garbage-bin robots around the station’s underground concourse, following programmed routes between the East, West, Central East and Central West gates. The boxy machines have large cartoon eyes, exteriors colored after JR train lines and Shinjuku Station […] The post Trash Can…

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The strange grief of not wanting kids

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