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You Can Now Take Home a Real Japanese Manhole Cover for National Sewer Day

On September 10, while most of Japan goes about the ordinary business of living without thinking too hard about what happens after a toilet flushes, the country will observe one of the stranger entries on its crowded calendar of commemorative days: Sewer Day. In Hirakata, a city in Osaka Prefecture, the local waterworks bureau is […] The post You Can Now Take Home a Real Japanese Manhole Cover…

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