poetry on the drink

this is one of the common green tea products.
one thing about this is haiku works on the side of the bottle.
they are selected from more than 1.7million entries.
the contest has divisions of underage, 20s~40s, 40s and older, and of english as well.

110 is the emergency number

this indicates a shelter children who run into trouble out there can turn to.
an indivudual household plays a role of 'koban' police box.
these posts were supposed to be passed on in the community but this one has been here for more than 10 years.
no case of trouble as far as i remember.
May security last long.

right to left

in manga in japanese, lines(what characters say) are basically written vertically.
and books starts from right end(which goes copletely other way round from non-japanese books).
This bilingual version have English lines centered, and yet starts from the right end toward the left. kind of funny way.