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Indeed. Click here for more on the Orochi. Perhaps NSFW, you have been warned.
If you can keep your lunch down as you scroll (past the optional rear wing), you can see the three they used for type approval crash testing.
My favorite variant is the convertible, called the Orochi Nude Top. Love the Japanese use of English!
I never knew such existed - the Nude Top that is.
Not, quaint Japanese English...
Thanks for the tip!
More Boso Hanto exploring...
Like Showa-era gas stands, I love the barber shops too.
Typically, they do men and women's hair equally, and use a lot of hot towels - when open that is.
Not a good example of the period's architecture, but I had to add to my collection.
Across Japan, you can occasionally see abandoned yak-mobiles.
Sometimes the locals refuse to even look at them, but other times they are happy to relate the story about how they've been sent to the big house, or similar.
This bagged Benz was likely just a chimpira, or similar like a bag-man.
Maruyama Hardware, still trading.
Closed for the day.
Local garage.
This drug store has been here since the 1600s.
This Honda dealer has been here since the 1970s.
Kirin Beer shop converted to vending machines - which often happens when the owner gets older - and even those have since passed over to the next world.
Like many religious icons this 56m tall Kannon was built with controversy - stolen money, oppressed donors, corruption, and similar.
Much like the present Japanese government and their strange, incestuous relationship with the Moonies.
The view from the top though, out over Tokyo Bay, is pretty neat.
Though, the stairs and balconies can be scary in that 1950s' lack of Health and Safety in Design way...
"Yak" as in Yakuza, the altruistic Japanese organization famous for their free fridge delivery service, daycare, tax prep assistance, laundry, and ensuring all debts are promptly paid.
"Yak" as in Yakuza, the altruistic Japanese organization famous for their free fridge delivery service, daycare, tax prep assistance, laundry, and ensuring all debts are promptly paid.
Yup!
What are called Anti-Social Forces these days, and in massive decline across the country.
Even the loud buses have to hire students to do the driving for them... Being a neo-**** these days just isn't the same as it was when the government supported you through the many back doors.
Yaks still get about, but mostly in local cars, and here's one on Hagerty I prepared earlier on similar.
In Osaka It’s - string of 3’s in the license plate that denotes a car to be given a wide berth. Basically a Benz with a 3 number car is in the business.
In Osaka It’s - string of 3’s in the license plate that denotes a car to be given a wide berth. Basically a Benz with a 3 number car is in the business.
Kinki - 3s.
Kanto - 8s.
Interesting... More research needed, any volunteers? Thanks!
A bit off-topic, but in the spirit of this thread: I just watched a wonderful, classic black and white Japanese film from 1968. It is set in samurai times, is a revenge/ghost story, with a black cat-monster. The title is, of course, Kuroneko (one word). It was directed (and he also wrote the script) by one of Japan's grand masters of film, Kaneto Shindo. The b/w cinematography is pure magic, almost every frame a work of art. The sets are classic Japanese esthetics, pared down to only the essential elements. Shindo directed 48 films, wrote scripts for 238, and lived to be 100 (d. 2012). I got the film on a Netflix DVD, but I think it is also available on archive.org. Highly recommended for all enthusiasts of this thread! Sorry, no 987 content....
A bit off-topic, but in the spirit of this thread: I just watched a wonderful, classic black and white Japanese film from 1968. It is set in samurai times, is a revenge/ghost story, with a black cat-monster. The title is, of course, Kuroneko (one word). It was directed (and he also wrote the script) by one of Japan's grand masters of film, Kaneto Shindo. The b/w cinematography is pure magic, almost every frame a work of art. The sets are classic Japanese esthetics, pared down to only the essential elements. Shindo directed 48 films, wrote scripts for 238, and lived to be 100 (d. 2012). I got the film on a Netflix DVD, but I think it is also available on archive.org. Highly recommended for all enthusiasts of this thread! Sorry, no 987 content....
Awesome!
I've downloaded from archive.org, and just need to find the time to sit down beside the fire with a glass of mugi on the rocks...
Thanks for the tip!
Is that an Airstream travel trailer parked behind the Mistubishi kei? I would think that something like that would be pretty rare in Japan, given the lack of suitable tow vehicles, and the roads.
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