Successive generations of young Japanese have earned nicknames like Bamboo Tribes or Speed Tribes.

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The gentle vegetarians eat up to 45 pounds a day of things like bamboo shoots, wild celery and berries.

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There are also shorts like Bamboo Express featured before some of the movies, which run two to three minutes in length.

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Yes, it's smaller than the wand you get with something like a Bamboo tablet, but the styling is at least reminiscent of the bigger ones.

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In many areas where indigenous culture can be seen, there is usually a pavilion-like structure built from wood or bamboo where the community elders gather for discussions.

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Check in: A group of "cabins" in name only, this Zen-like retreat is set in a bamboo grove a couple of blocks from the beach, with private outdoor spas, sculptural firepits, and heated floors.

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The panda uses its thumbs to better grip its favourite bamboo food, while the mole's shovel-like claws are probably an adaptation to its dirt-filled tunnels.

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After some doodling in Photoshop we found the same surface that was too rubbery for our fingers to be slightly too slippery for the stylus, lacking the advertised "paper-like tablet surface" as found on the original Bamboo.

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Across the fields and beyond a humming slash of motorway, the enormous bamboo stalk of Taipei 101, the second-tallest building in the world, stood like a punctuation mark.

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