No, you can’t have a bite. Go and get your own.

Not jealous are you?
Photographs from a small group of islands
No, you can’t have a bite. Go and get your own.

Not jealous are you?
Japan’s prolonged period of economic stagnation has prompted many retail outlets to opt for ever more outlandish promotional gimmicks, with perhaps none as bright and bizarre as this shop and ferris wheel combination.

A decidedly unique approach it has to be said, and one that gives customers that bit of fairground fun they didn’t even know they wanted.

Other stores however go for a rather more restrained, low-key approach. A prime example being the public display of internal organs.

Whilst just about interesting enough in itself, the picture below also offers the relatively rare opportunity of using the words bust, helmet and chopper in the same sentence. Although it goes without saying that such dreadful double-entendres have no place whatsoever on Tokyo Times.

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Admittedly they didn’t quite inherit the earth.

But this chunk of prime real estate isn’t a bad consolation prize.

There are numerous words that could be added to ‘very’ in order to describe the young lady pictured on the magazine below.

‘Holiday’ however is arguably not the first one that springs to mind.