Nishinomiya, Japan

... . The Japanese are fanatical about baseball, especially when it's the Hanshin Tigers (local team) vs. the Yomiuri Giants (Yankees of Japan). Well, we got tickets to the game and Mike and I went to the souvenir shop and got geared up with noisemakers and ...

We went to the kids' sports carnival. I've never seen anything like it. Two hundred pupils, all in synchronistic harmony; watched carefully through the lenses of still and moving cameras by several hundred adults! And all this on a Sunday morning. ...