on the way home we watched a black man getting arrested and several punkkids/homeless people getting harrassed, having their photo taken (nice polaroid camera there.), while a camerateam from some austrian TV programm filmed it all. close ups, zooming in and all. so damn professional, so damn illegal. we stood and stared for a while, then called people to get us in contact with legal aid. it was all over as quick as it had started. the dogs were nervous, so were the cops, civil pigs were smoking cigarettes with the punks and everyone got their wallets back. the kid...
taken from the observation deck (45th floor) at the tokyo metropolitan government building, north tower, in shinjuku, west central tokyo. (a note for potential tourists: this is free!)
^ looking south-east across the center of tokyo. tokyo bay is...