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The Man From Taured

It is 1954. A Caucasian businessman arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, for a conference. The man communicates in several languages including Japanese and professes to have been to Japan on various occasions.  Nothing appears to be strange until a customs official looks at his passport. The customs official is perplexed; he has never heard of the country the man's passport was issued from. It is from a country called Taured.  The official thinks he is simply uninformed and requests his manager to take a look at the passport. His manager does not recognize it either; none of the officials at the airport do. The passport looks genuine and has many stamps from different nations including Japan.  Clueless about a country called Taured, the custom officials request that the man show them where his country is on a world map. He highlights Andorra ( a little country among Spain and France) on the map. Whenever the officials let him know that the spot he pointed at was actually a...
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