Due to the necessary noise that Japanese mobile phone cameras have to make because of the possibly nefarious pictures they may be asked to perform, arguably the only sound more common than the cries of Kanpai! during cheery blossom season are the equally constant melodies of mobile cameras.
Archives for April 2010
Carefully picked kimono
Happy hanami
From literature to young lads whose lives were wastefully blown away in the war, the all to brief beauty of the cherry blossom is often linked with the ephemeral nature of life and love, although fingers crossed, for this currently content young couple, their feelings won’t be too fleeting.
Japanese whale hunting whoppers?
With The Cove currently getting plenty of coverage, and Japan’s ‘scientific’ whale hunting programme almost never out of the news, it seemed like a good time to cull, so to speak, a bit of cetacean-related stuff from the Tokyo Times archives.
A post that is still just as timely today as Japan comes under increasing pressure due to accusations of sheer bloody-mindedness and misplaced national pride, and yet when all is said and done, and although it’s difficult to condone the killing of such beautiful beasts, it simply cannot be said that the Japanese don’t take their research seriously, with very little of the mammals left untast untested.
Plus, while critics vociferously claim that the results from non-lethal techniques could prove to be equally as productive, proponents opine that they would be far less palatable.