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In Japan it is number 4 because sound like their word for death (something among those lines)
which is kinda stupid because they have two words for 4 (shi and yon) and only shi sounds like death.
Well, what superstition isn't stupid?
If it's anything like Korean (and it probably is), it's specific when you can use each version of the word so it's not like you could simply swap shi for yon