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Apr 28 2023 8 Comments

Japanese local election colours and contrasts

Japanese electioneering invariably involves little more than repeatedly bellowing the candidate’s name over a loudspeaker and waving meaninglessly from a moving vehicle.

Now, whether a photograph of that process passing by a business offering decidedly adult entertainment euphemistically labelled as a health service says anything about Japanese politics I don’t know, but it definitely feels like it should.

Japanese local election colours and contrasts

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  1. Denise says

    4/28/2023 at 10:33 am

    I’m so not gonna ask what goes on there but I love the colors and double wave! 🙂

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    • Lee says

      4/30/2023 at 9:23 pm

      Haha, that’s probably for the best! Thanks. Very happy with how this one worked out.

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  2. Günter says

    4/28/2023 at 7:18 pm

    It looks very dated. I think without the vehicle it could easily be a scene from many years ago.

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    • Lee says

      4/30/2023 at 9:23 pm

      Yeah, that’s very true. It has definitely seen better days that’s for sure.

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  3. cdilla says

    4/29/2023 at 1:52 am

    I must confess I have no idea why such methods would be considered anything other than annoying, and not subject to noise pollution laws.
    That aside the colours in you photograph are wonderful, including the bizarre choice of body suit atire adopted by the loud brigade.
    Glad you left your sound recording equipment dormant on this one 🙂

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    • Lee says

      4/30/2023 at 9:28 pm

      I couldn’t agree more. Even worse they start really early as well. I’ve had candidates shouting their repetitive nonsense outside my nearby station from 6:30 in the morning. If I could vote, they absolutely would not be getting mine with that kind of behaviour.

      Cheers. It really did work our surprisingly well. And yes, sounds very much best left to the imagination.

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  4. john says

    4/30/2023 at 10:15 am

    Similarly coloured outfits and waves. Those blues and whites join it all up.
    The driver looks like he’s managing single handedly even though there are two of them!

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    • Lee says

      4/30/2023 at 9:30 pm

      Yeah, I didn’t have time to clock much at the time apart from the ‘wave’ on the building, but then looking at it afterwards I noticed the matching colours. Very happy with how it worked out.

      Haha, that’s very true.

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