Nipponia is a free magazine published in multiple languages by Heibonsha given away at Japanese embassies around the globe. Inside the new issue (46, for those of you counting) is a profile piece in which I am formally charged with the heinous crime of...
Surely there are others more worthy of the blame, but here is my mug shot taken in my preferred seating spot in Nakano Broadway, playing "monsters" with a vintage Marusan Kanegon and something limited-edition from Godzilla Final Wars. But I'd give it all up to be Baolimo Lombo (below), who was born in the Congo, who now gets to work at the LaOX Duty Free in the AKB...
The pants and shirt combined with the tiny chair/stool being sat on at what appears to be a 45 degree angle make that picture truly grandiose. I'd walk into the embassy to snag a copy for myself if not for the fact that I think armed guards demand to see your passport before you can set foot inside one of them, if Matt Damon action movies are anything to go by.
Posted by: Daryl Surat | October 15, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Shirt by Takeo Kikuchi, pants by 5351 Pour Les HOMMES.
Posted by: Patrick Macias | October 15, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Akiba shops have many foreign employee.I've met a few Bengal,Pakistani,Mongolian,Brazillian,Burmese and lots and lots of Chinese and Korean.
Posted by: Aceface | October 16, 2008 at 05:18 AM
Those are some shiny, shiny pants, man. Worthy of a X-seijin.
Posted by: Steve Harrison | October 16, 2008 at 08:55 AM
Yeah, I was gonna say "Damn, dems sum shiny pants" as well, but someone beat me to it. Or them. Yeah.
Posted by: Sluggo | October 18, 2008 at 08:12 AM
Since you're from cali, are you representing the silver & black in that photo?
fyi - i hate the f'n raiders and the black hole. the game today was FIXED!!!!!...
...god kicks me.
Posted by: SPM | October 19, 2008 at 05:53 PM
The pants are much less silver off-line than they are in that pic. Not much of a sports fan here, but I was digging on the Raiders logo the other day. I like.
Posted by: Patrick Macias | October 19, 2008 at 06:07 PM