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| the Japanese inverted triangle stop sign |
Such non-universal traffic signs (recently some display English translation) among others, have been in place since 1963. Inspired by increasing international tourism, including Olympic games, the National Police Agency slated the stop-signs for replacement by a bilingual version of the universal octagonal red sign; the total cost nationally was estimated at 25 billion yen, or 200 million US$.
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| remember to flip your card! |
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| for disposing of used food-wrappers from lunch at an upscale Nagoya lunch self-serve |
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| archaic font for an ultra-modern bus |
It was inevitable that high-tech toilets with a bidet function, found very widely in modern Japan, would come up for discussion. The operation and instructions vary from model to model, but are always imposing. Here, the customer seems to be advised to not wash while his/her lamplight (?) is turned on.
CLASSIC JAPANESE HAIKU, in translation
everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
pricks like a bramble.
Kobayashi Issa
TODAY's HAIKU POEM
hearing crabs scurry,
a perched old grackle cries out
as I reach the marsh.
Giorgio Coniglio.
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