UPDATE: Tokyo Times now says this was a joke.
According to Tokyo Times, this broom shop hasn't sold anything since 1972. A store that, perhaps due to a niche that's not exactly necessary nowadays, unfortunately hasn't had the pleasure of a patron since 1972 — Saturday, September 2nd, to be precise. And even then the customer in question was after a hand brush that unfortunately they didn't have. Will someone in Tokyo reading this please go to the store and buy a broom? (And take photos of the transaction so we can post them here?)
