Companies humored their customers on April Fools' Day, offering eye-catching products and services that in some cases appeared to meet a credulous audience.
Corporate websites glowed with too-good-to-be-true offers of everything from luxury cars installed with rice cookers to speedy delivery of magazines by drone.
April Fools' Day hoaxes are rare in Japan, but foreign companies — and increasingly domestic ones — are happy to take part.
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