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Do you see many of them down where you are? Up here, there aren’t many left outside, and it seems like the restaurants that have them in poster form (inside the restaurant) are disappearing every week.

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.