For reasons unknown, and regardless of who is picking the team,

Goro always seems to end up resigned to going in goal.

Photographs from a small group of islands
The practice of handing out tissues and discount tickets is played out all over Tokyo, but the teeming hordes at Harajuku’s Takeshita Dori must surely make the task more tedious.

Or at the very least, taxing.

The timer may well be ticking, but a spot of shogi on a Sunday is a considerably more welcome form of clock watching than the type worried about on a weekday.
