"THE AFRICA ISSUE" on the top of the page.
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A friend in London has sent me this "Independent (RED)" newspaper (16 May 2006), which was edited by Bono, activist-with-beautiful-voice.
BBC: Independent goes Red as Bono edits (16 May 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4984864.stm
If you read Japanese, here are my blog entries (I'm basically criticizing everything, and this is no exception):
13 May 2006
16 May 2006
A friend in London has sent me this "Independent (RED)" newspaper (16 May 2006), which was edited by Bono, activist-with-beautiful-voice.
BBC: Independent goes Red as Bono edits (16 May 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4984864.stm
If you read Japanese, here are my blog entries (I'm basically criticizing everything, and this is no exception):
13 May 2006
16 May 2006
A friend in London has sent me this "Independent (RED)" newspaper (16 May 2006), which was edited by Bono, activist-with-beautiful-voice.
BBC: Independent goes Red as Bono edits (16 May 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4984864.stm
If you read Japanese, here are my blog entries (I'm basically criticizing everything, and this is no exception):
13 May 2006
16 May 2006
The frontpage artwork is done by Damian Hirst.
A friend in London has sent me this "Independent (RED)" newspaper (16 May 2006), which was edited by Bono, activist-with-beautiful-voice.
BBC: Independent goes Red as Bono edits (16 May 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4984864.stm
If you read Japanese, here are my blog entries (I'm basically criticizing everything, and this is no exception):
13 May 2006
16 May 2006
The frontpage artwork is done by Damian Hirst.
I wanted the "?" key on the right, but couldn't find it...
While I was doing a full cleanup of my keyboard after having trouble with some keys, I got bored and took some boring pictures.
As you can see here, on 20 May, we had sunshine after nine successive days (this is unusual: it's not the rainy season yet).
Tokyo, Japan.
The wind was so strong, the cloud moved so fast. The last three pics are continuously shot (2 seconds).
(See notes.)
14 days x umbrella, 4 full days x cloud, 6.5 days x sun... This is our May weather so far. And 1st May was hot and humid, like summer (look at the temperature: my neighbourhood was almost 30 degrees). This is unusual,actually, and there's a report that Weather hits veggie prices / Lack of sunlight blamed for rising price of greens. :(
from www.weather-eye.com/
Detail of the previous pic (with a bit more focus).
Initially, she thought it was okay as she was. But somebody claimed she was not recognisable as "a female" because there was no red (a colour that stands for "female"), and that it was not user-friendly. Thus, she was forced to wear a nice red skirt.
In time, she might be painted all red with this felt-tip marker (this pen isn't made for "painting" but "drawing").
A customer toilet sign. Tokyo, Japan.
I feel really sorry for the designer. *sigh*
Initially, she thought it was okay as she was. But somebody claimed she was not recognisable as "a female" because there was no red (a colour that stands for "female"), and that it was not user-friendly. Thus, she was forced to wear a nice red skirt.
In time, she might be painted all red with this felt-tip marker (this pen isn't made for "painting" but "drawing").
A customer toilet sign. Tokyo, Japan.
Sorry it's blurred, but I couldn't fire the flash because it was just outside the toilet. (I didn't want to look very suspicious!)
Translates, "Enjoy the rich colours of Tokyo". (I'm only joking.)
To see the almost-astonishing variety of weeds, view large.
The white ones are cherry petals.
High-contrast.
On the way to the station, there is a school. This wall belongs to it.
This is a reposted picture, again, as I don't want this one to slip away.
Original post, which is about one year ago, is here, and another post here, each with some comments.
thirty-year-old sign of "no nukes declaration." large letters were possibly hand-written, in a very beautiful authentic style.
"No Nukes Declaration" can be seen in a lot of cities around Japan, because Japan is the first country that was nuke-bombed (in 1945).
peace. :-)
Around 2:00 pm, 1 April 2006.
Tokyo, Japan
A lot of cherry trees in Tokyo are Somei-yoshino (in Japanese, ソメイヨシノ‰), but there are many different kinds of cherries (sakura).
This very white cherry is Oo-shima-zakura (in Japanese, 大島桜).
The colour of the petals is quite different, and Oo-shima-zakura has larger flowers. The most outstanding difference is, however, if the leaves come out at the same time as the blossoms.
Actually, I like Oo-shima-zakura better than Somei-yoshino and I wanted to re-visit the tree I pictured last year because I didn't do well at that time as below (out of focus because of the strong wind, etc):
... But, sadly enough, the tree was trimmed. Yes, trimmed. Who trimmed that beautiful tree? Ghrrrr.
So, the main picture here is of one of a dozen branches left of the tree.
Sort of off focus, but captures the colours.
Around 2:00 pm, 1 April 2006.
Tokyo, Japan
This is called hana fubuki (花吹雪), which could be translated as "flower storm/shower".
Around 2:00 pm, 1 April 2006.
Tokyo, Japan
Around 2:00 pm, 1 April 2006.
Tokyo, Japan
