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Talking of pink pigs I came across this fellow tacked on to the wall by the entrance of a building near Yoyogi. ("Buta" is Japanese for pig).

Or possibly the shop owner has had enough of troublesome children and introduced an additional service for stressed parents.

Up to hanky-panky? "Spanky Toys & Collectibles - WARLOK co. ltd."

Would you buy this clothing?

Glitzy Chest? Another one of Mr. Austy Wind's enterprises? Possibly involving glam rock and / or sparkling mammary regions? The mind is free to boggle.

(Seen in Takeshita-Dōri, Tokyo, April 2004)

It is a little known fact that the first Europeans to reach Japan were not as commonly thought Portuguese, but rather Italo-Scandinavians whose longboat was blown off course during a freak surfing incident near Hawaii. Upon their fortuitous landfall at Kanagawa they courteously refrained from looting, pillaging and ravaging, instead engaging in a gourmet competition with the local samurai.

I am not exactly sure who Mr. Austy Winds is, but I sincerely believe his wedding-dress floor show is perfectly innocent - not to mention sweet and classical - and the kind of event your Japanese bride-to-be would take you and your putative mother-in-law to.

I always thought dentistry was a profession with a slightly revolting side to it. This dental establishment discovered in some back street off Shibuya's Center-Gai obviously thinks so too.