However, the most omnipresent celeb advertisement in circulation now is Ewan McGregor's AEON campaign. Some days it seems as if the Diet passed a law making it illegal for any train or subway car to have less than sixty-eight of these ads in one given spot. Could be worth joining just to hear what he has to say. The money is really good, and they all sign contracts which explicitly say that these ads will never be shown outside of Japan, or so they think. See, the Internet does have a practical use after all.
Summer is excrutiatingly humid whereas winter is unbelievably cold.
However, for the first two weeks of spring, Japan seems like the best place in the world to be. At this time, Ueno Park is literally exploding with pink petals. Rows of cherry blossom trees stretch almost endlessly down the lain, making the notion of work, school, or any kind of responsibly downright unthinkable. They throw down a tarp, park themselves under the nearest tree, and proceed to get as drunk as humanly possible. Random acts of public idiocy abound.