Just Say "Hmmm... Maybe..."

Posted by Daryl Johnson (Farnham, United Kingdom) on 11 October 2007 in Miscellaneous.

Pharmacy in Okayama city.

Although I'm now in England, this blog will still feature photos from Japan for the foreseeable future.

I apologise in advance if I'm tardy with commenting on your blogs or returning comments during the week... I will get to you though!

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Comments (14)

Bron from Canberra, Australia

What can they mean.........
Interesting capture Daroru

11 Oct 2007 10:46am

@Bron: Thank you Bron!

annora from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

haha.funny shot.

11 Oct 2007 12:29pm

@annora: Cheers annora!

Wolfgang Prigge from Canada

奇妙な名前! (I hope this is right, I want to say strange name...) But it's a good photo!

11 Oct 2007 2:28pm

@Wolfgang Prigge: My wife tells me that's right Wolfgang! Your translator is very good... do you speak Japanese? 本当にありがとう!

rem_la from villiers, France

L'applique sur le mur n'est pas droite !!

11 Oct 2007 3:51pm

@rem_la: Hélas rem_la!

yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece

very funny image I like your sharp eye

11 Oct 2007 4:21pm

@yiannis krikis: Thanks yiannis.

Amir from ?, Iran

Very nice perspective. What on earth is "Love Drugs"

11 Oct 2007 4:27pm

@Amir: It's just the name of a pharmacy chain...

No, I don't speak Japanese, I just bought a MacBook Pro and it has something called widgets, that is internet based applications that allow you do do a lot of things. One widget is a translator where you can translate into 16 different languages. I know French, English and German well, and enough of Dutch, Italien and Spanish to know if it looks right, but for Chinese, Russian, Korean and Japanese I have to trust the translator blindly. This was the first chance to test Japanese, so I'm glad it seems to work....

11 Oct 2007 5:09pm

@Wolfgang Prigge: Cool program Wolfgang!

mahan from tehran, Iran

intresting! :D

11 Oct 2007 8:44pm

@mahan: Thanks mahan.

Pouhou from Apeldoorn, Netherlands

strange association

11 Oct 2007 9:02pm

@Pouhou: Yes!

Zing from Hamilton, New Zealand

Hmm...interesting words...

12 Oct 2007 3:08am

@Zing: Yes!

aaxan from Tokyo, Japan

Interesting! I still can't get it though. What do they want to say?

If I'm right "くすりのラブ" means "the Love of Medicine" and "Love Drugs" means Drugs of "Love" and they just don't match.
Or they want to say they love Drugs? and therefore it should be "くすりへのラブ", right?

Little help over here Pls?

12 Oct 2007 6:44am

@aaxan: productのshop/company name is the common way to identify a shop in Japanese. So for example a barbeque restaurant called "Yamada" could be called "Yakiniku no Yamada". As "Love" is the name of the pharmacy, it's called "Kusuri no Love" in Japanese.

Claudio from Porto, Portugal

lololol very amusant

13 Oct 2007 12:30am

@Claudio: Thanks Claudio!

Twelvebit from Victoria, United States

I love the way signs and titles translate from Japanese into English. Where else do you get titles like "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World" and "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle."

21 Oct 2007 3:18pm

@Twelvebit: Thanks Twelvebit.