Friday 31 October 2008

Your Japanese word of the week is...

"anshin" which is relief or peace of mind. And due to popular demand (at least, what I perceived to be popular demand haha), I've found a few more posters from the Tokyo Metro's "Peace of Mind/Courtesy" posters which are currently being updated monthly.




Please do it in the yard............ right.... If I may be honest, I've never EVER seen anyone practice golf swings with their wet umbrella. Either that, or we're supposed to practice our umbrella-golf swings in our yard and not on the train platform lest our oversized-dandruff dirties the trenchcoat of a double-monacle'd gormless old man..... this poster also fails to address that fact that nearly everyone in Japan is not fortunate enough to have a yard to fling their dandruff around....... but that kid sure does have good technique- see how his coat flies from the force of his hip rotation.......

This is my personal favourite. Please do it at the beach!! I can assure you no one dives for trains like that. I can also assure you no one uses the breaststroke to try and catch the train. I mean, the relevance of this picture is stretching it a bit......

The poor fellow also seems to have a similar dandruff problem AND lo...... it's the same creepy old man stalking all these train miscreants. Maybe they should make a poster for the man to warn people about stalking......

"Please do it from behind a telescope" or something..........

Oh wells......

In other news, this week is the north-Tokyo tournament which Seiritsu is entered in. And next week is the first time in 31 years that the World Karate Championships will be held in Tokyo.

The World Karate Championships are the highest level of karate competition in the world (well, until karate gets into the Olympics). Lasting from Nov 13-16, I've been signed up as a volunteer translator (yeah, who knew haha) for the last two days, so hopefully that'll mean I can be on the floor, next to the rings watching all the action.

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