All your yen will belong to us (plus Popeyes opens up shop in Kenmore Square)
It’s a mutual love affair in Kenmore Square and around Fenway Park: Hordes of Japanese tourists are expected to descend on the Boston Red Sox ballpark throughout the season to worship ace pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka (or Matsuball, as I prefer to call him while the rest of the English-speaking world has opted for the oh-so-contemporary-and-enormously-imaginative nickname Dice K) and, in the process, spend their big wads of hard-earned money on hotels and restaurants in the area. I don’t have a financial stake in the Summer of Nippon, but I have a moderate amount of admiration and respect for Japan and the Japanese people, so I’m looking forward to this whole much anticipated madness. I just hope our visitors from the land of the rising sun don’t sour too quickly on this city and its people of sunny disposition.
Below is a photograph of a young Japanese woman doing that Japanese thing: Taking pictures of her friends in a foreign city.
Here’s a photograph a of a Japanese cameraman filming in the Red Sox store on Yawkey Way.
I hope all those Japanese signs that have shot-up in and around Kenmore Square are more accurate than those hilarious signs in English that tourists and businessmen love to photograph in China.
Maluken is just about the only restaurant around that doesn’t have Japanese signs, but I guess when you’re Maluken, you don’t really need them.
There was lot of activity on Yawkey Way on Saturday, with the home opener just a couple of days away.
There’s yet another new establishment in Kenmore Square. The latest addition is Popeye’s. Yes, Popeye’s. Don’t scoff. Customers piled in from the minute the doors opened. [Update: Apparently it has been open for a few days already.]
