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created over 4 years ago | Tagged: well being, entertainment, design, taste, japan, sensory appeal, toys, trends, junk, fads, trinkets, popular items of 2008,

Winky Dink

Yahoo! JAPAN recently annouced the results of a number of their “Best of 2008″, and one of the categories was what rare products people just couldn’t resist click through to. Voting was (as far as I understand) open to all registered users of Yahoo! JAPAN. The items were collected from all the Hot Items selected by Yahoo! Shopping between January and October of this year. Which do you most want to buy? * Fresh caramel * Female fundoshi * Marimokkori * Calculator * Bomb bank * Fukuda ASCII T-shirt * Yelling vase * Masahiro Tanaka ball * Hula-hoop * Curry bath salts View Results If you do like the look of Marimokkori, you can in fact buy him here. Ranking result Q: What rare product could you just not resist clicking through to?

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