Goshi-Goshi Towel Defeats Foreign Towels

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    Here are a couple videos from a TV program about introducing Japan’s great “treasures” to foreign countries [shown previously in the Turkish schoolgirls post]. The first video demonstrates how the goshi-goshi towel is vastly superior to anything non-Japanese countries have produced:

    Normally I’d be annoyed by a clip that puts giant X’s through the preferred foreign methods of doing something and highlights the Japanese way as clearly perfect. It’s especially lame when they’re doing it for something like the goshi-goshi towel, something that many Japanese people probably don’t even prefer to use when washing themselves, judging from all the foreign brushes and washcloths for sale alongside goshi-goshi towels on store shelves. However, I’ll forgive them because they ended the clip with this declaration:

    I’ll concede that the goshi-goshi may indeed be parfect.

    The program later sent tubby wrestler Koriki to a hot spring in Hungary to see what Hungarians thought of the goshi-goshi towel, which was pretty interesting:

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