As you all know, sumo is a traditional japanese sport. It basically consists in two extremely “big” guys wrestling. It was really impressive to see so many people watching this (a full big arena) with a lot of media coverage around the sumo players, which are very high located in the hierarchical japanese society.
I am not going to bore you talking about politics… Specially because I do not have a clue about this in Japan. But anyway, thanks to some friends’ contacts, we could visit the parliament of Japan. The Diet is a huge building near the Imperial Palace, holding both the parliament and the senate, which seems (once more in Japan) very practical, isn’t it?
Next to the parliament (again, very good idea), we could see the Prime Minister’s Residence. There was a lot of movement those days, as he had resigned, and the new one was about to be elected.
Finally, after a week with technical problems, the blog is back and we can both post and comment without any strange issues.
Good news in this grey day. It seems autumn has finally arrived properly to Tokyo, with pretty low temperatures (today I wore a jacket), rain… But that makes nicer the hot green tea you find everywhere, like in today’s sushi dinner place…
This is the reason of not being polite to drive your chopsticks into the rice bowl. It reminds people the incense lighted for the dead people.
