Hello, all you fine, amazing, and loyal readers! Welcome to another edition of the one and only Random Japan, your simply sensational not to mention radically random look into the plain and ordinary in the land of painful cars (more on this later).

Today—well, painful cars! Sound interesting? I hope so! Let’s get started. Let’s enter into…

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_{You can do it!}

An encouraging car, I suppose, for some. Cars with colorful anime characters painted all over them are relatively common to see in Japan, even in smaller cities like Okazaki. They are known generally as itasha—literally painful car. Painful to look at, that is. Being a geek and sharing that love with the world may have gone mainstream in the West, but it is still looked down upon here.

_{A Sax-Tree}

Yes sir, in Japan saxes grow just like trees. Swear!

_{Let’s Go! Anpanman!}

Anpanman may be the single most popular character in this country. There are many others, of course, but anpanman obsession by everyone younger than 10 is just something else. The theme song is pretty catchy (but I may only think that because I hear it many times a day as one of my kids watches the TV show or play with a toy that plays the song)

_{Funny Wall}

は is pronounced “ha”. Funny wall ha ha ha ha, get it? Sorry, my kids are young; my dad joke skills are still simple. This is just a storage shed. Storage sheds are very common things to see around here. With such small houses, people need somewhere to put all their crap.

_{I Said Bow!}

Japanese management secrets.

_{Old Building}

Another storage shed. Told you they were common. This one not as funny as the last.

_{Odd Treasure}

I came across these guys near one of the major rivers in town. Treasure!

That’s all, folks. Thank you for staying with me through today’s exploration. Any favorites? Let me know in the comments. And me sure to turn in next time when, if providence allows, I shall return for another Random Japan. See you then!

If you like this random photo from Japan, be sure to check out @kaliju’s great Random Korea series. The latest entry there is Random Korea #56 - When it comes to pizza, Korea has plenty of options to satisfy

Also be sure to follow @kafkanarchy84, @maxinpower, @boxcarblue, and @wllmdnnd for even more random Japan fun! @jrvacation and @mweich have the occasional randomjapan post too. Then over in China we have @nobyeni with her occasional randomchina post.

Are you a Japan-based or Asia-based photographer who posts somewhat random photos from the country? If so, use the tag #randomasia, #randomjapan or randomCOUNTRYYOUAREIN on your posts.

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