Submitted by Hiroyuki Imamura

The no-longer-secret miso udon recipe from Fukuju, the noodle shop behind my school. Hiroshi, the owner of the shop and author of this recipe, is my student. Make of that what you will.

Posters!!

Last month Tsu held city-wide elections for a new mayor and city assembly. Just under 80 candidates vied for about 35 seats.
It's long been known, in Japan at least, that voters can be swayed two ways: by posters and by the waving of a white-gloved hand. So for one week the residents of Tsu city were treated to an audio-visual electoral feast. From 8 am to 8 pm, the legal campaigning hours, just under 80 packs of cars affixed with loud speakers and filled with volunteer hands roamed the streets begging for votes and waving furiously.
Every once and a while the candidates stopped to preach at moving traffic.

Can your bank offer you this?

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