No More Sakuragicho Graffiti Wall

So much for not posting much before I take the GRE next week.

Not long after our trip to Japan last year, I learned about the Sakuragicho graffiti wall. It turns out that I was probably just a few hundred yards from it when we were in Yokohama, but I didn’t know it was there. I was hoping to see it on our next trip, but I just learned that it was painted over last Fall. Here’s a cool collection of pictures someone put together before it was wiped out.

While Googling for the Sakuragicho pictures, I came across the Frangipani gallery - a collection of beautiful pictures taken by an Australian currently living in Tokyo. It’s worth a look.

I mentioned our next trip - we’re going to Japan again next summer. This time to Fukuoka - a city located on Japan’s southern island Kyushu. Maria will be attending a conference there. My mother has kindly volunteered to take care of Baby X while we’re gone (we still haven’t decided on his name). I’m already looking forward to the trip!

Maria and I are trying to come up with a scheme where we could live in Japan for between 3 and 6 months at some point down the road. She could justify it for her work - the hard part would be my job. But I could conceivably work remotely…anyway, we’ll see what we can put together once a specific opportunity comes up.