Japan Photos 10

Toys and picture books for happy little Japanese children.
Oh boy, you're really going to love the next set of pictures. It is a progression of what school lunches were like over the past several decades. This is one from the 1960's has noodles and curry, a salad and a peach.
The 1970's lunch might have included deep-fried krill in a cheese roll, chop suey a bread roll and a melon.
You can go ahead and read the little sign at the top to see what an 80's lunch might have been.
The 1990's lunch. You can also read what is there. I can't imagine American school lunches being served on proper plates and bowls.
And lastly what I suppose is the lunch of the 21st century. The sign is partly covered on this one, but it looks like some egg rolls, a salad, a fruit cup and a couple of bowls of other stuff.
Another maid outfit, just like would be found at one of those maid cafes.
I remember things like this. And this Sharp boom box has a dual cassette. Fancy.
A table top Space Invaders game. Oh, how this takes me back.
The Sony FX-300 was a multi-purpose radio, cassette recorder and black and white television. They never really took off.
That little white Subaru is still there.
A replica of a kitchen in the Hibarigaoka Housing Complex from 1959.
A little old television of that era.
A baseball game toy. Baseball is very popular in Japan.
A Toshiba television from 1962, a Toshiba washing machine from 1955 and a refrigertor (that's how the sign spelled it) from the late 50's and early 60's.
Clothes burned in the Tokyo air raids.
An accordion and box from the war. No wonder they lost. They fought with accordions.
Another sugoroku. This is a big one.
You say stop and I say go, go, go.
A model of the facade of the Denkikan movie theatre from 1914.
I didn't get a chance to go into the Sumo Museum last time around but it was open this time.
DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING As it turns out I didn't miss much. There's not a whole lot there. It's really just one room with some sumo outfits and pictures of famous sumo wrestlers, particularly champions. But it was free and didn't take a long time to see.
Robert and Lisa left the Edo-Tokyo museum earlier than we did because the kids would be getting back from school. After the short visit to the Sumo Museum we headed back to the apartment for dinner.
Dinner was okonomiyaki. It's a kind of Japanese pancake dish with cabbage, meat, an egg and sauces. It was rather good.
Robert made most of them, but Isabelle made one and even Karen gave one a go.
I mentioned that Tokyo Disney Resort was rather close. These are the fireworks as seen from the balcony of the apartment.
I don't remember where, but at some point in the day I picked up a little box of strawberry chocolate biscuits.

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