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Aug 11 2014 10 Comments

Tokyo’s clean and not so mean city streets?

graffiti in Tokyo

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  1. Martin says

    8/11/2014 at 10:12 am

    Nice to take pride in one’s surroundings. On another note I’d like to see her getting into those jeans!

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    • Lee says

      8/11/2014 at 9:11 pm

      A process that quite possibly took as long as it did to decorate those shutters!

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  2. Matt Talbot says

    8/11/2014 at 9:44 pm

    Indeed, those jeans would explain why she can’t bend at the knee.

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    • Lee says

      8/12/2014 at 10:18 am

      Clearly a small price to pay in the name of fashion. In a similar vein, I suspect the boy may well have the phone surgically attached to his hand for a two year period.

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  3. LAObserver says

    8/12/2014 at 7:00 am

    Not to sound naive, but still there is nothing more amazing than seeing graffiti in Nippon. Before I visited there myself, I was repeatedly told of the national and personal pride the natives have in their home. It just seems so contrary to the Nihonjin psyche to deface their surroundings in such a manner.

    Well times change don’t they ?

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    • Lee says

      8/12/2014 at 10:22 am

      The do indeed. In Shibuya and parts of Harajuku there is an awful lot. A huge change from what it used to be like. It’s quickly spreading to a lot of other areas too. Some of it is genuinely artistic, but a good amount is anything but…

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  4. willy says

    8/12/2014 at 8:53 am

    I remember going there in the 80’s and being taken aback by the lack of graffiti. But now graffiti culture seems to have become ubiquitous.

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    • Lee says

      8/12/2014 at 10:25 am

      Yeah, pretty much. Definitely not everywhere, at least not yet, but there’s so much more than there used to be.

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  5. Anni Hart says

    8/16/2014 at 12:21 am

    So …. there are graffiti in Tokyo … I thought it was a clean City without any graffiti

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    • Lee says

      8/16/2014 at 10:51 am

      Fairly clean, but quite a lot of graffiti these days.

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