Mostly downtown Sendai

 This is in the bus depot at Asahigaoka. Notice the whitish lines on the far wall. These are places where more than nine months after the quakes they finally got around to patching the cracks. We had a fairly strong quake the other day and I was talking to another teacher about it. She said that a small unrepaired crack in her home had opened up and now she could see all the wall outdoors through it.

 This is a large glass window in the entrance hall of the building where I am now having my art classes. The work crew has dug up and is replacing the sidewalk outside. The quakes had so badly damaged it that it was difficult to walk on, as are many of the sidewalks in the city.

 In the shopping arcade they were having a concert of some kind. The bands, the one that were playing and one that was waiting, were both young and were playing pop music.

 The reason that there are so few people is that it is still early, before the opening times of the stores.

I could not understand who this character was supposed to be. Mr. Orange or something?