No, that guy is not injured, nor is he a mugging victim. Just another reminder that we’re not living in the suburbs anymore. He’s just another salaryman who had too much to drink, and so took about an hour’s nap on the sidewalk in front of our building. Below you can see a passerby checking up on him.

I noticed him when I came home; the guy was still awake, but in the exact same position you see below. He was, in fact, checking his cell phone. Charming. I suppose it’s better than sleeping completely in the gutter–only his feet are over the curb.

How long could someone be like this in any major American city and still have his wallet, cellphone, and watch when he woke up? You can be pretty sure this guy woke up with everything still in his pockets, and then did the chidori-ashi (chicken-walk) all the way home.

Yet another discount barber place. Cut only for ¥1100, cut and shampoo for ¥1700. Choices, choices.

Speaking of choices… this line of more than a dozen vending machines lines the wall of a building on the way from the station to our place. Mostly drink machines, but there are two automated photo booths and one ice cream vending machine in that line-up.

And finally, some Engrish T-shirt finds:

On that second one, on the right, above the “67,” it says, “To remember it and not to repent.” Heathens. Below is the last, and hardest to read at this size:

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