Yeah, it's upside down. It's just that when
posted this way Menhera-chan is pointing
in the correct direction to indicate the
end of the Heisei era posts and the start
of the Reiwa era posts in this blog.
So the Heisei era has ended and we're now in Reiwa. At least one person I know asked out loud why Japan hasn't switched to counting the years using the Western method but I figured that the idea wouldn't fly to well in certain circles in this county.
Aside from a few people saying "Ake ome", which is normally reserved for use at New Year's, there wasn't too much of a big fuss about the event in these parts. The post office threw me for a loop when they started putting entries such as 01/05/03 in my bank passbook...okay, what year was that? My next car inspection expiration decal will sport a big "03" instead of "33". The list goes on....
