Reminder

I am not sure what to say here. To be honest, my first thought was there is no way these shoes were left this way after the tsunami hit Kashima. My second thought is that it is nice to see the wind turbines in the background. Lastly, I hope more and more people can get their lives back to normal in the affected areas.

Still, I am not sure what this photo is supposed to be saying.

Very nice picture on so many levels.

Japanese people are known to leave their shoes behind before committing suicide. I hope it wasn't that.

I used to often wonder why I saw so many shoes on the road in Japan when I first started driving here. Then one day I was waiting at the lights and watched some workers leaving a construction site at the end of the day. They all took their work shoes off, and put their casual shoes on and jumped into theirs cars and trucks and headed off home. On the top of one of the trucks was a pair of sneakers, and about 50m down the road I watched the sneakers fall off and bounce on the road as the car poolers drove off into the distance. I now know why there are so many shoes on the sides of the road in Japan.

It is a well framed photo, and I love the sea wall and wind turbines in the background.