Photos of the month (March 2008)
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Japanese idol singer Aya Matsuura, 21, points at a special cake with the theme of three famous ancient beauties — Japanese poet Onono Komachi, Chinese princess consort Yang Guifei and Egyptian queen Cleopatra — at a Tokyo press conference for the upcoming 25th National Confectionery Exposition, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. The expo will kick off in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture on April 18. The Himeji-born singer has been appointed as an honorary spokesperson for the expo. (Mainichi) Aya Matsuura, the best thing coming out of the Morning Musume project.
Visitors enjoy peach flower viewing in a plastic greenhouse in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture. The greenhouse named “Hausu Toen” (peach party house), which maintains warm temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius, is popular for its deep pink peach flowers that are the earliest to bloom in Japan. The flower viewing event continues until the middle of March. Admission is 500 yen for junior high school students and older. (Mainichi)
Waiters Yuta Asami, Makoto Aoba, Ritsuki Sunomiya and Yui Saginomiya (L-R), dressed as schoolboys and a schoolteacher, work at the Edelstein Cafe in Tokyo, Jan. 29, 2008. At Edelstein Boarding School, the schoolboys wear lip-gloss, the headmistress has a penchant for homoerotic comic books and there is only one subject: how to serve female visitors. Welcome to Tokyo’s first schoolboy cafe, the latest in a flurry of eateries in Japan where customers and waiters role play themes from manga comics. (Reuters)
This aerial photo taken from a Mainichi helicopter shows Mount Omuro ablaze during a traditional “yamayaki” (mountain-burning) event in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sunday, Mar. 2, 2008. Burning off dead grass helps new shoots grow quickly in early spring. After some 100 participants set fire to the dried grass with torches at the foot of the 581-meter-high mountain, the flames engulfed the mountain in about 20 minutes. The 700-year-old event drew some 30,000 spectators this year. (Mainichi)
Princess Aiko, led by her mother Crown Princess Masako, arrives at Kodomo-no-kuni (Children’s Land) in Yokohama, near Tokyo, during a kindergarten excursion on Thursday, March 6, 2008. (AP)
A woman walks by a field of potted tulips in the business district of Marunouchi, Tokyo, on Monday, March 17, 2008. The 1.2 kilometer-long Marunouchi Nakadori street is decorated with some 100,000 tulips in red, yellow, pink and other colors until Mar. 23. The event is organized by a local merchants’ association. (Mainichi)
This undated photo supplied by Christie’s auction house shows a sculpture of the seated figure of Dainichi Nyorai, or the supreme Buddha. It is attributed to Unkei, considered one of the two best sculptors of the early Kamakura period in the 1190s, when the most highly regarded Buddhist art was produced. The newly discovered wooden sculpture that had religious objects sealed in its torso for 800 years sold for $14.3 million at auction in New York on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, setting a world record for any Japanese work of art, Christie’s auction house said. (AP Photo/Christie’s Images Ltd. 2008)
People enjoy cherry blossom flowers in bloom at Tokyo’s Ueno Park on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Tens of thousands of admirers are expected to show up at the park to enjoy the white pink blossoms. (AP) I could not go to watch Cherry Flower blossom in DC this week. Suck ! (Viet)
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