Billboards offer dozens of male hosts, exotic yet commodified

That hair and make-up cannot come cheap.

His orange hair is on fire!

Like an exotic bird in the bright autumn sunlight. At Tokyo’s most famous Jesuit university.

Cycads wrapped up for winter in Kyoto

Visiting my favorite gardens in Kyoto, my eye was caught by the elaborate wrapping of cycad palms for winter. These plants were chosen because of their tropical look and exotic origins. I think they probably look better wrapped than unwrapped.