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Giving a Japanese product a western name is sometimes thought to add cachet; the danger is you end up with a random selection of Janglish words that only add ridicule to an otherwise blameless model. Here are some of our favourites, none of which officially made it out of Japan with these names attached.<\/p>\n

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