Japan is the land of cute! Every where Aimee and I went in Kyoto we found overly cute and obsessively-happy cartoon characters staring back at us. Something as simple as ‘please clean up after your dog’ becomes a happy frolic in the cutesy theme park where there’s a never-ending supply of Prozac to go around. All signs are cute; it doesn’t matter if it’s a personal shop owner’s sign or a government issued sign: everything is damn cute in Japan. Since I found myself constantly being surrounded by cuteness I decided to start taking pictures. Here are some of the photos I saw while there:
Beyond cuteness there is also sadness. Sadness because the poor English language sometimes gets a little abused in Japan. While in Osaka I saw this in our hotel room:
You would think that before they printed out several hundred of these sheets for the hotels rooms that they would run the spelling by at least one fluent English speaker. I mean, how is it possible for a business to get a translation so badly wrong? I mean seriously, MICHLOWAVE? VANDING MACHINE?? NON SMORKING ROOM??? Sad sad sad. Sad yes, but extremely funny too! Aimee and I were giggling about that all day. Or maybe it was the Prozac cartoon characters that were making us giggle?
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HAHAHAHAHAHh
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