This modest publication's cosmopolitanist feature, "Only in Japan," has lain dormant for lack of suitably peculiar slices of Japanese life — at least from the volumes of photo-journalism.

Why not freelance? Providentially, Figure Concord recently gained a Hiroshima correspondent. An American expatriate equipped with a demonstrably advanced cell phone camera and a sharp sense of amusing cultural differences, this source may provide us, over the months, an occasional look at what we all expect to see from Japan: matchless oddity. The captions are hers.

A new spin on "His & Hers."

[What appears to be a Doraemon six-string] for your guitar collection.

Dichotomy.

In appropriate thanks — and correct, having verified — arigatou.