At the Fukuoka Yahoo! Dome, home to the local baseball team, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, and sometimes host venue for the local flea markets, concerts, and of course Anime Conventions like Comic City 2006.

As you all know, Anime and Manga are perhaps one of the major Japanese exports right after Toyota and Playstation. And then there's cosplay ("costume - play"):
















Mario &... Tetris blocks?????

I apologize for not being able to take pictures of Naruto and Bleach characters, or any other characters for that matter, simply because you have to pay to get into the photography section. I do promise to take more pictures however, at the biggest Anime Convention in Tokyo this coming March, and perhaps to even dress up as Sailor Moon (juz kiddin)....but you'd luv that wouldn't u.

Pictures from the Sumo tournament held in Fukuoka. Here I am holding hands with the winner of the tournament, the Yokozuna Asashoryuu.