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Sep 05 2018 10 Comments

Tokyo typhoon man

Typhoon Jebi may well have been on its way, but this man simply wasn’t going to miss Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine.

A Japanese man in a typhoon at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine

Categorized: Photography, Religion

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  1. Linda says

    9/5/2018 at 10:01 am

    Well I guess that’s one way to beat the crowds.

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    • Lee says

      9/5/2018 at 9:00 pm

      Yes, although to be fair, there were still a surprising number of people bravely battling the heavy downpours.

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  2. Jenn says

    9/5/2018 at 1:36 pm

    I saw the typhoon on cable news. It looked intense. Stay safe!

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    • Lee says

      9/5/2018 at 9:02 pm

      Thanks. Thankfully nothing for us to worry about in Tokyo. Just a bit windy and wet. A very different story in west Japan though…

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  3. Hans ter Horst says

    9/8/2018 at 3:01 pm

    Haha, excellent! I never really understood the use of a brolly in a typhoon (as opposed to a simple raincoat) 🙂
    I wish I had my camera on the ready two years ago in Kawagoe when a typhoon passed: A guy in a suit, on a bicycle with one hand steering and holding a briefcase in the same hand, in the other hand an umbrella through torrential rain and winds that blew him all over the place. Would have made a YouTube hit 🙂

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    • Lee says

      9/8/2018 at 5:22 pm

      Yeah, every time we have a typhoon there’s always footage of at least one utterly drenched person battling with an inside out umbrella.

      It would have. There’s always an audience for gallant salaryman stories/vidoes!

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  4. Matt Talbot says

    9/8/2018 at 11:46 pm

    That wouldn’t be someone’s ashes in umbrella man’s plastic bag by any chance? Would explain a lot maybe?

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    • Lee says

      9/9/2018 at 9:40 am

      Oh, hadn’t even thought of that possibility. Difficult to see what exactly is in the bag, but yeah, if it was a box of ashes, that really would explain a lot. It’d also make me question whether I should have taken the photo in the first place…

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  5. cdilla says

    9/11/2018 at 6:06 pm

    “but this man simply wasn’t going to miss Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine” – neither were you it seems 🙂
    Looks like I’ve missed a few of your posts. The lamp that lights up to alert me of them glitched out – I reset it today so we’re good again. Technology eh? Hope you enjoyed your time away from the heat.

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    • Lee says

      9/12/2018 at 10:02 am

      It actually wasn’t my plan to go there (honest!), but after a dental appointment the weather didn’t seem too bad, so I opted for a walk. More or less got away with it, but there were some very heavy showers to contend with…

      I like the idea of a light going on. Or not as the case was!

      Cheers. Yes, I did thanks. Was a struggle coming back and dealing with it again, but I managed to be away during the worst of it, and this year really was bad.

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