In Japan, there is a popular canned coffee brand made by Suntory called BOSS . You can get it in vending machines and convenience stores pretty much everywhere - the former will dispense both hot and cold versions. In the same unlikely way that Bill Murray was the ( fictional ) ambassador for Suntory's Hibiki Whiskey, Tommy Lee Jones is the (all too real) face of Suntory's BOSS Coffee. Apparently, these are known as japanders . I've been to Japan three times now, and it's got to the point where it doesn't feel like I've arrived properly if I don't catch a glimpse of his craggy features on a billboard somewhere. I'd be in a village on the outskirts of Osaka, where life seems as rural as can be, and I'd suddenly turn the corner, and there he would be - on a vending machine, looking stalwart and true. In his wonderful book Sushi and Beyond , the author Michael Booth even mentions Mr Jones in a description of Tokyo: " Emil clung to my thigh for the...
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