12/8/2008

Here is the spirit of Japanese Christmas that I captured with my cellphone camera las weekend. The photo on the left taken in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district shows that in Japan even Rudolph can get nailed with a parking ticket and be forced to sign off for the infraction.

The new Tokyo parking regulations and the new deputized civilian have become very strict in the past two years. The parking wardens have been handing out parking tickets starting at 20,000yen ($200USD) and up. Even stricter is the photo below taken by Tokyo’s indubitable otaku, Danny Cho, showing Tokyo-Akihabara’s parking wardens issuing a ticket to this lame itasha/car.
I said “lame” because the hard-ass parking wardens are incorrectly issuing a ticket to a car with what looks to be a white-and-silver Handicapped Parking Permit on the dash.

Note:
Itasha are Japanese cars plastered with anime stickers and other forms of otaku freakazoid decoration to show their lolicon pride (fetish). View the Youtube video below of an itasha meet, and see more photos of itasha/cars on Google-Image.