His method of protest may well be unusual, but this man’s hat-based declaration to not accept the policies of Prime Minister Abe is to be applauded.
Photographs from a small group of islands
His method of protest may well be unusual, but this man’s hat-based declaration to not accept the policies of Prime Minister Abe is to be applauded.
Linda says
Love this. If I ever go off the deep end, I’m going to keep this technique in mind. I could use the additional height.
(It must be a nice change of pace for you that all those people giving the hairy eyeball are probably looking at that guy instead of the photographer.)
Lee says
Good idea, isn’t it? Relatively modest yet immediately noticeable.
It was. A very nice change. He actually noticed me taking the photo and then posed for another one. A lovely fella with an equally lovey smile.
Coli says
Is that a mass produced sign? A neighbor down the street has the same one on his window at home in the same font. I always thought he wrote it in a calligraphy class:)
Lee says
Oh, I’ve no idea. I presumed he’d done it himself. Like you did with your neighbour.
Handmade but perhaps a popular anti-Abe slogan?
Coli says
I’ve never actually seen my his face. I just went to his house and it’s not I’m his window. Same person???
Lee says
Haha, you never know. Maybe!
cdilla says
The crouching lady with the Judge Dredd smile is the highlight for me. A great people photograph. It looks pleasantly warm there, if overcast. My little live Tokyo display tells me it’s 18 there now and cloudy. Mind you it’s also midnight.
The hat is practical in as much as it leaves your hands free, but not so sure about when there is a stiff breeze.
Wearing tall hats smacks of a punishment, though the text would dispell that perception when close enough to read.
It’s voting time here in the UK and it annoys me when people tell me how to vote, whether it’s a party hawker at the door or a poster in a neighbour’s window.
Same goes for religious views.
It’s a lovely village where I live, but it does seem to have more than a comfortable number of deity pedlars and polical activists. On the plus side it makes for a short christmas list 🙂
Lee says
I liked the other people in the photo too. The looks at him and one at me make it interesting. Plus of course there’s the man himself!
It’s been warm here recently. Well, hot really. High 20s on a few days. Very nice to be honest as the humidity hasn’t really started to kick in yet. But such heat at this time of year could mean another absolute scorcher of a summer. Just have to hope that’s not the case…
Haha, a shortened Christmas list is always a plus. The increase in political protest in Tokyo has been very noticeable over the last few years. Sadly it hasn’t changed anything at all, but it’s definitely encouraging to see people openly showing their anger at where Abe is potentially taking the country.
Hans Ter Horst says
After all the failures of Abe, it is indeed amazing that he still has a considerable approval rating, and it is good to see people protesting.
Of course the political system in Japan is broken and it were better for everybody if they simply changed to a proportial representive system instead keeping that broken district system now that the countryside is getting emptier and emptier: A vote in Akita is more than twice a vote in Tokyo and as the powerbase of the LDP is the countryside, that’s never going to happen ðŸ˜
Lee says
Yes. And protests are common sight these days. Definitely a good thing. Trouble is though, it changes nothing. Like you say, the system is broken. Well, broken for everybody but the LDP. And with no viable opposition at all, that system isn’t going to change. Neither will the continued shift to the right either…