Category: Various

“Hamarikyu” is one of my favorite parks in Tokyo (It’s located five minutes walking from Hamamatsucho station north exit). Today I was checking Mainichi and found this picture taken in Hamarikyu park:

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I thought: “Hey! I have the same picture! I know the woman who is hiding in the middle of those flowers!. I searched in my pictures folder from last month and this is what I found:

I was wrong!, I had the same picture (same place and same woman) but no blossom yet. I took that picture at the end of July. One week ago I came back to the park and could see how splendorous the flower field is when flowers blossom. I could not find “the woman” last time, but I found zillions of bugs eating from those healthy blossomed flowers.

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Yesterday I was (trying) to read Asahi Shinbun and came into an article about a communications station from the United States army that is being demolished in Okinawa. It happens that this antenna cached my attention when I went to Okinawa, I took these pictures.

This big weird thing is in a village called Yomitan located near the west coast in the biggest island in Okinawa. The shape of the antenna and its size (You can appreciate it from the second picture) made some people to imagine that it looks like an “elephant cage” and that’s how local people call it. The place where the “elephant cage” is was conquered by the United States at the end of the war but two years ago it was returned to Japan. During the next months the antenna is gonna be demolished and the terrain will be returned to its original landlords (Not an easy job, you need to know who owned the land before the WWII).