Once a year, the Japanese community in Düsseldorf organizes a second hand market between main station and the VHS (a public adult education institute) in early May. This time, it was smaller than in the years before. We got a Doraemon puzzle for a friend. If you're living in the area and want to buy all kinds of stuff cheap, take a look at Duesselnet. You'll need somebody who translates Japanese for you, though. Over 5,000 Japanese live in Düsseldorf, in Europe, it's the biggest Japanese community. The Sarariman are sent here to work for four or five years, and usually they come with their families. When their time has come, they sell their belongings before returning home to Japan, and lots of it is on Duesselnet's black board or the one in the Japanese club at Marienstrasse.

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