PHOTO of the DAY (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

A green turtle digs a hole on a beach on the island of Chichijima -- part of the recently designated UNESCO natural World Heritage Site Ogasawara island chain -- to lay her eggs on the night of June 20, 2011. The turtle, one of about 500 estimated to visit the island to lay their eggs annually, spent an hour digging the hole by the roots of a tree some 30 meters from the surf. (Mainichi)

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Colorful handmade lanterns are prepared at a temporary house in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, for a memorial service for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake scheduled for mid-August. A 63-year-old local housewife is planning the memorial service to mourn the victims and hope for recovery of the area. The woman has been making lanterns decorated with paper cutouts by using milk cartons since before the March 11 disaster as a hobby. She is now joined by housewives from Hyogo Prefecture who experienced the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake and is hoping to prepare more than 1,500 lanterns for the event. (Mainichi)


Ichisuke Honda, right, looks on as sixth-year elementary school student Kyosuke Miyamae writes a message on the 2,000th hiking pole prepared for people's treks to Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture, where a Japan Airlines flight crashed in 1985, killing 520 people aboard. Honda, 70, who lost his legs in a work accident at the age of 17, started making the poles to make it easier for bereaved family members to visit the mountain site to pay respects to the victims of the crash, and has been donating them since 1992. Since 2001, students at an elementary school in the Gunma Prefecture city of Fujioka, which a grandchild of Honda's attended, have written messages on the sticks to the bereaved families. This year the total number of the sticks reached 2,067. (Mainichi)


A woman checks out a baseball glove-shaped chair on display at the Design Products Fair in Tokyo, on Wednesday, July 6, 2011. The fair will run through July 8 at the Tokyo Big Site exhibition center in the capital's Koto Ward. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

[Call Me Wesley]

1. K&R. Thanks for doing these.

I usually rec when I see them but hardly post.

[AsahinaKimi]

2. Thank you!

どうもうありがとうございます。~bows~

[AsahinaKimi]

3. kicking for the night shift.

Enjoy, tanoshin de kudasai!

[stevedeshazer]

4. Such interesting photos

I really like that chair.

[malaise]

5. Thanks

Lovely