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I don't see them as often as I used to, but I also don't see a lot of the older buildings anymore that they used to hang on. Yeah, I see the poster version in restaurants and sometimes at train stations. But the originals are disappearing fast

Everything is turning over now. It sounds like those signs might be a good thing to try to get your hands on and sell here and abroad.

By the way, my father-in-law just won 2nd best in (possibly one of many of) Niigata Prefecture’s haiku contest. I’ll ask him for a copy of the haiku next time I see him.