Whiter shade
Originally uploaded by nofrills
2 September 2009
1 September 2009
Fever :: Heat
Fever :: Heat
Originally uploaded by nofrills
29 August 2009. Tokyo, Japan.
After somewhat autumnal spell for a few days (less humid, less hot and clear), summer is back again - heat and humidity. When I get back to my room on this day, the room temperature was astonishingly over 38 degrees celcius.
31 August 2009
秋の気配 Autumn is just around the corner - とんぼ a dragonfly
秋の気配 Autumn is just around the corner - とんぼ a dragonfly
Originally uploaded by nofrills
25 August 2009.
The first dragonfly just outside my window .
Another view:
Saturated view:
秋の気配 Autumn is just around the corner (hopefully)
秋の気配 Autumn is just around the corner (hopefully)
Originally uploaded by nofrills
20 August 2009, Tokyo, Japan
August 30, Election Day
August 30, Election Day
Originally uploaded by nofrills
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A public announcement poster for the General Election 2009.
I like this simple and well-designed poster. This girl is not somebody famous; she's probably a model, and she's a perfect "girl nextdoor". They usually employ a famous actor to attract attention, or use stupid "manga"-ish characters, to make a bad poster.
Party Posters (a left-wing wall)
Party Posters (a left-wing wall)
Originally uploaded by nofrills
Two left-wing national political parties in Japan (共産党 and 社民党), one left-ish local small party in Tokyo (生活者ネットワーク) and one centrist party (民主党).
Don't believe the American mainstream media's lazy propaganda: 民主党, or the Liberal Party of Japan, is NOT on the leftside of the political spectrum. (If they are, the Liberal Democtrats are on the left, too - they have had Keynesian policy for a long time.)
The LPJ are just another centrist party made up of 1) ex-LDP members (conservatives, nationalists, ultra-nationalists) and 2) ex-Social Democratic Something members (they indeed are on the left, but not very influential even within the LPJ itself). The NYT's article was one of the worst I've read on this election. They didn't even know the LPJ are now not against the "war on terror". (They used to be strongly against it.) The UK's Times and the Guardian have had good articles published.
I intentionally avoided two other political parties linked to religious organisations (公明党 and 幸福実現党). 公明党 (Komei Party), which is currently part of the ruling coalition, is thought to be the political wing of a large religious organisation (Soka Gakkai). 幸福実現党 is a very new political party which really is a political wing of a new religion (新宗教, which can be roughly translated as "cult").
Party Posters (LDP)
Party Posters (LDP)
Originally uploaded by nofrills
自民党 (the Liberal Democratic Party - they really should rename themselves as the Conservative Majority-loving Party). They are going to lose their position after all these five or six decades. (I don't count Hosokawa gov't because it was too short.)
At the last election, in 2005, the LDP (under Koizumi, who was known as an "eccentric" and "artistic" person) employed a skilled graphic designer. But this time, there they are! The good old CONSERVATIVE, BORING, and STALE LDP!!
A Party Poster
A Party Poster
Originally uploaded by nofrills
国民新党 (the People's New Party) is a relatively new party formed by not-new-at-all jokes, erm, political veterans who are largely conservative and populist.
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