Elections

Next weekend there are elections here. The numbers of vans with driving around with loudspeakers spreading their respective political opinion seems to be increasing. You can see wooden boards with portraits of the local politicians on every corner.

Last weekend when we were strolling through Ginza (on the way to buy some Waffles) we saw a funny thing. On one side of the pedestrian crossing parked a van from which somebody was talking to the surrounding masses of passer-bys (obviously with the intent of convincing them that his party’s plans are the best). Ten meters away parked another van, who had turned his volume up a little more, apparently to block the other’s speech. The persons belonging to that van however didn’t bother to give a speech themselves. Instead they continuously played some music. The lyrics were just one sentence, repeated over and over with different intonation according to the background music. I can’t say I understood what they sang but it seemingly meant “vote for Mr/Mrs xyz!”