It's up to 35°C these days in Tokyo, workers wear jackets with builtin fans.

This scenario has #staplerfahrerklaus vibes.. the smell of fermented food from Sweden got sucked in, two workers lost consciousness. Surstroeming is not directly mentioned, but maybe it was that - the picture shows it.

Via: https://x.com/ishiimark_sign/status/1935323012032774457

I love how they fused Kanji and Romaji here:
美 is a glyph which means "beauty", mostly spelled "bi". For example used in 美容院/Biyouin, beauty salon.

The super market around the corner here uses "美stro bread" for "bistro bread" to hint how beautiful it is.

Kanjidamage on 美: https://www.kanjidamage.com/kanji/965-beauty-%E7%BE%8E

TIL: the reason that Tamagoyaki (Japanese omuelette) is in Tokyo/Kantou area sweeter than in Japans west areas: In the past, sugar was expensive and in Eido (nowadays Tokyo) as wealthy city it was used extensively to show off.

This influences the taste in the regions even now.

So many folks using the weather to climb Mnt. Tounodake - the summit was quite full.
Everybody using their chance before it's getting hotter.

Trip: https://fluxcoil.net/wiki/japan/tokyo_hiking/tanzawa_tounodake

The Nintendo #switch2 is sold in Germany since yesterday, for 469.99€.
With inflation/prices drifting off in Japan since years, I was curious on the price here.
Amazon-Japan is greeting with a warning that the Switch2 sold here is usable only with Japanese language setting, and just in Japan.. and it's sold for ¥49,980 (303€).

That's 65% of the price in Germany.. quite a difference!
We are still in the world of DVD region codes..

My income here is ~82% of someone doing the same work in .de .

"With the end of Prohibition and the outbreak of World War II, the still dry US Navy was provided with ice cream on almost every ship."
"Ice cream was important for morale. In 1942, the U.S.S. Lexington was slowly sinking from a Japanese torpedo attack, before the crew abandoned ship, they broke into the freezer and ate all the ice cream."

Setting priorities is so important :)

https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2025/05/how-ice-cream-replaced-booze-in-the-us-navy-2/

I spotted this at my daily commute - going by bike, it's easy to get off and investigate..
Looks like a huge, "breathing" flower, a bit like from an Alien movie. Also has an spect of making one feel a bit uneasy/uncomfortable, in Japanese I would say "違和感".

It's part of the "The vanishing point of the Ant" exhibition.