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Great post! I learnt a lot

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Very informative and your posts always make me want to move to Japan with my family 🥲

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What's your pillow of choice? Sobakawa makura?

Ever been visited by a makurageishi? They sound much more benevolent then the apparitions that have or had visited Westerners.. except the soul's return prevention part.

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I'm weak with a memory foam and sobakawa mix. The ghosts sound so fun minus the soul stealing

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I'm somewhat perplexed by the notion. Googling I found a picture that indeed showed a "mix", as mixed as oats are with dried fruits in müsli. But I'd think that the memory foam's property arise from it being a block, such that if you shred it to pieces it also, well, loses its memory.

Also am amused that "Japanese plus size" is smaller than "standard size":

https://www.pinetales.com/products/hybrid-pillow-memory-foam-buckwheat

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Edutainment at its best!

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