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The word "futon" comes from the Japanese term for a cushion bed, which is shikibuton or shikifuton.

Another type of Japanese bed is the tatami (raised platform bed).

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Most Japanese people use mattresses nowadays, but some of them sleep on a futon, a cushion that they put on the floor.

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