Some other photos

This seems unnecessarily aggressive.

Sale once a month. "Everything must go!"

Western cartoon characters Japanese people have deep and inexplicable love for: Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, Miffy, the Moomins. They were having a "premium Moomin exhibition" in a department store we were at recently, so we went to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out it's just a shop that sells a bunch of Moomin merchandise. People were real excited about it though. You could buy the Moomin DVD discography for $500 if you felt so inclined!

"An 18 meter tall statue of a manga robot that was built to help rebuild the Nagata ward of Kobe both financially and morally after the great earthquake."

i met the colonel!