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I've lived in Japan for 15yrs. I never considered this strange. I've seen similar butter dishes in the USA. I mean googling "butter dish" one of the first hits

• pattusk 6y ago
  I've lived in Japan for a long time too and while the dishes are familiar, I've never seen anything like the knives presented in the article. They look more like novelty items you'd get from the home shopping channel than a staple of every Japanese household (still neat though!).
• eps 6y ago
  Butter dishes are commonplace everywhere. That's not what the article is mainly about though.