Festival along the streets of Gakugeidaigaku in Meguro features a parade of characters like the American style banjo band wearing stars and stripes ties. Taking the picture as it’s always interesting to see one culture group imitating another in any form. A common sight to see in Tokyo young kids dressed in American hip hop clothes. Each represents some visual play with identity or belonging to a group. They could be dressing up to belong to a group they feel is more “real” than everyday in Japan. It looked like they were all having fun at the festival the picture of the American band is my token photo of Japanese being American as for the lat year at TUJ so many students have used visual depictions of Japanese doing western activities as a way of trying to understand the Japanese culture. Other act at the parade featured hip hop Jump roping and some more traditional costumes that look like they have some agricultural roots in the designs. The crowd was mostly shoppers along this normally busy road of the one time home to a large university. The city Gakugeidaigaku was home to a large university but as the Japanese population has aged the university has closed here. What’s left is a kind of funky town that has some flavor of a youthful university town but with no University.