MUJI, the Japanese consumer and home goods company, has created a house in Mitaka, Tokyo completely furnished in MUJI goods and is offering a FREE 2 year stay in exchange for completing a monitoring process throughout your lease.  Enter the lottery to win by June 25th, 2012 on either  facebook or twitter but you may need to brush up on your characters as all monitoring communications will be in Japanese.

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