Thursday, January 05, 2006

A Very Japanese Christmas



Hope everyone recovered OK from New Year!

Here's some pictures from the aforementioned rained-out Christmas festivities. Held every night of December, the 'Hakodate Christmas Fantasy' features a giant-headed amusingly voiced Santa, his cohorts and sleigh, and a Christmas tree imported from Hakodate's sister city in Canada. This year the top broke off, but it got better (those with long memories may recall that last year's tree had to be replaced from Hokkaido due to a bug infestation).

The usual weird techno music featured, with the same Pet Shop Boys track being the centrepiece ('Go West'?) and the dancers did an admirable job despite the sleet drizzling down.

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