i am not one to do such nature photos, but i thought these were nice.

attack of kids.

girl up front.

bored student.

waiting to be fed.

ryoma.

girl.

images of suguru.

too much produce.

the japanese compost.

niiharu village, gunma, japan

is in Takasaki, Gunma. It sells everything from lingerie, to adult sex toys, to uniforms for mobile phone companies.

and nobody works there. just a bunch of machines.

walls and walls and walls of shtuff!

i went to a festival out in a small town in Gunma, Japan.

I found the town itself to have a lot more character than the festival (since I was only there in the morning), so….

a bike sign

japanese slippers to the entrance of a japanese konnyaku (devil’s tongue) restaurant.

a taxi parking area

i went to visit a friend of mine from vancouver who is working in Mie prefecture, and she lives in an area famous for their “Mikimoto Pearls.”

Here are some of the Amasan, the pearl divers of Mie.

According to early technical manuals,

R1-D8 was the humble predecessor to the R2, R4, and R5-series astromech droids. Lacking mobility of any kind, and consistently unable to compute the simplest mathematical problems, the R1 series was generally regarded as a low-point in astromechanical research and development and a stain on the record of all involved in the affair.

After the R1 project was scrapped (and all project managers subsequently fired), the few remaining relics were shipped to South Korea and employed as recepticles for common refuse.