Remarkable lines – The Audi building in Harajuku

Shark heart sashimi in Kesennuma #sushi

The Loving Embrace – 1950s ASAHI Beer Poster

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Frank Zappa

You will now to please put many banana in my mouth!

Sunset from Nijo castle In Kyoto

What are these Japanese alcohol vending machines in Kyoto really suggesting?

Good times in Gion – Geisha hand clap

Gold leaf chrysanthemum sake poured by Geisha in Gion

Occasionally to look past the dull facades and telephone wires and see what towers in the distance provides a different perspective

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Black is not great camouflage in a blizzard, but he still outfoxed me

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Grizzly bear on the loose in airport. Local Alaskans unfazed.

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Random assorted nigiri platter

The queen & I.

The sun also rises…