The most modern of Tokyo love stories? A young couple canoodling beside a vending machine while using a smartphone.
Photographs from a small group of islands
The most modern of Tokyo love stories? A young couple canoodling beside a vending machine while using a smartphone.
Karl says
Good luck to the happy couple, but I think more Japanese women are deciding they don’t want a stereotypical subservient Japanese marriage and look to western men for a long-term future.
Lee says
There are certainly more international marriages these days, but at the same time Japan is changing. Younger people are increasingly different from their parents and grandparents. Of course in Japan such changes tend to be slow, but they are happening.
DavidT says
I think the guy only has eyes for you! 😉
Lee says
Haha, he certainly had his eye on me, but for very different reasons!
john says
getting by without a vending machine high.
Lee says
But always there to fall back on. Quite literally in this case.
john says
Cracking stuff! :O)
john says
It’s not the best place for kayaking, so the options are limited for things nautical.
Lee says
Took me a while to pick up on that pun!