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THE TWO UGLIEST BUILDINGS IN OSAKA

Vice Japan's translator is out this morning, so please bear with the language for a few minutes.

Above weird building is a sewage plant in Osaka designed by Vienna artist Friedrich Stowasser. Do you want to know how much building cost is? 80 billion yen. In English, that is 925 million dollars. So what you might spend on, say, a new Pakistani embassy, the entire yearly infrastructure budget of Massachusetts, or Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen network (if you are NBC), we spend on hilarious shit factories. But it is not the most poor-taste disposal center in Osaka.

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That title is held by this veiny-cocked monstrosity, designed for the city by… Friedrich Stowasser. Oh well. At least this one only cost us 60 billion yen (combined campaign cost of the 2004 US presidential election). Look, we know you all think Japanese society is obsessed with cuteness and bodily functions and turning everything into cartoons, but that doesn't mean you can just stick us with the Austrian version of

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. This is completely not suitable.