Would you vote for this man?

Yes, that's right, this is Kisho Kurokawa in political mode. I snapped this slightly frightening campaign poster with my phone on the way home from the office the other day. Although he failed in his bid to become the mayor of Tokyo (clearly Tokyoites aren't ready for a 72-year-old architect to lead them, so they re-elected a 74-year-old novelist instead) he hasn't given up on his political ambitions. Here's the man himself explaining why (in Japanese only):