It's January already and Japan is now back to work following the year-end 5-day sleep in. Whenever I ask Japanese friends/strangers/colleagues what they did during the holiday, they always - and I mean always - say they slept most of the time. This is to make up for the time spent avoiding sleep the other 11 months of the year when their companies are working them to death.
Meanwhile, here's a photo of the Purple Menace stalking Japan - a purple puffer jacket that appears to be all the rage. I saw one old chap with a less puffy purple puffer but now realize that he was wearing one from when they were last in fashion around 1972.
