A fact from Fukubukuro appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 January 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that as part of Fukubukuro, a New Year'scustom in Japan, merchants offer bags of merchandise for prices much lower than the normal value of the items inside?
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Is the grab bag tradition not also common to other parts of the world? We don't have an actual article for grab bag. While a few parts of this article are Japan-specific, I think those parts would fit in a section. Most of the text describing the practice is not particular to Japan. Would it be possible to generalize this article or do people feel that there is enough here to warrant that it remains a Japan article? Ham Pastrami (talk) 21:17, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know whether you read Japanese, but the sign in the photo itself actually says otanoshimi-bukuro (お楽しみ袋), not fukubukuro (福袋). To me, it would seem incongruous to include it on a page that is nominally about fukubukuro. --DAJF (talk) 06:39, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
