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said the label on one of those delicious ’slide-down-your-throat-so-easily’ jelly energy drinks. ‘Play true! Multi-vitamin, lemon in energy; a special jelly drink designed to supply carbohydrates equivalent to a rice ball. It’s an energy resource for everyone facing a challenge or task; +3% +10%.’ But +% what? That’s the question. They don’t quite tell you that! It may also be a challenge to identify the exact benefit the product both provides and adds to one’s ‘life power’. However, as with anything these days it’s just another risk we take and who wants a risk-free life? Jelly drinks beat rice balls any day in my book! And with enticing names like ‘Body Pleasure’ who would stick with lemonade? Just another Japanese delight, as yet, sadly, unseen on these shores. If discovered, please inform!

It’s interesting to note how easy it is to adapt to another life style when visiting Japan. So easy to walk anywhere in Tokyo, or jump on one or even many trains to travel with relative ease and speed. Public transport is the norm and cars are a distant memory until returning home, when all one can do when wishing for access to efficient public transport is reminisce. As for the expectation of ‘a room with a view’, it just doesn’t matter; the whole city is one buzzy, happening view to this once occasional tourist, now more regular visitor. It’s fast becoming a second home, a highly-rated benefit of having family ‘on location’.

Once home, listening to the arguments against advertising billboards in the central city irrelevant; I try to picture Tokyo without the neon lights and signage, just not possible I’m afraid. And anyway, aren’t there many more worthwhile discussions for this city council to be having? Or maybe they are and this is yet another distraction. Time will tell.