Uh, no, actually the thing I wanted to share with you was a bit from the end of that article:
Genius! It's like the bubble wrap of Japan!
(4) Sat Jun 21 2008 16:23:
Japanese piggy bank helps savers enjoy romance. I know that romance was always a chore until I got a Japanese piggy bank.
The company is already thriving on another new bestseller -- "Mugen Edamame" or "eternal green soy beans" -- plastic key chains that let people pretend to push boiled soy beans out of shells.