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July 2025 Issue [Readings]

Gotta Respect ’Em All

 

ojisan trading card. The power of an ojisan’s card in the game is determined by his perceived value to the community. Below is the most popular card, that of Mr. Fujii, a sixty-eight-year-old retired prison officer and community volunteer who wears a brown hat and glasses.

From a set of trading cards produced in the Japanese town of Kawara featuring the community’s middle-aged and elderly men, known as ojisan. The power of an ojisan’s card in the game is determined by his perceived value to the community. Below is the most popular card, that of Mr. Fujii, a sixty-eight-year-old retired prison officer and community volunteer.


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