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Last week and American company challenged Japan to a giant robot duel - and now Japan has accepted.

Fighting for Team America is the 5-metre-high Megabot, which can shoot paint balls the size of cannon balls and requires two people to control it.

Fighting for Japan is Suidobashi Heavy Industry’s Kuratas robot, the 500kg mech suit that sold through Amazon earlier in the year for $1 million.

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“Suidobashi you have a giant robot, we have a giant robot, you know what needs to happen. We challenge you to a duel,” said Megabot last week.

Suidobashi’s CEO Kogoro Kurata has responded with his own video, initially slamming the brash approach the Americans have taken.

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“Come on guys, make it cooler,” he said, referring to Megabot’s strategy of, in Kurata’s words, “building something huge and sticking guns on it”.

“It’s super American,” he added.

Kurata accepted the challenge on one condition: That there’s some ‘melee’ combat (robot hand to robot hand).

“If we’re gonna win this, I want to punch them and knock them down to do it,” he said.

“We can’t let another country win this. Giant robots are Japanese culture.”