In the music area I spoke of the Kyoto Tachibana SHS band and a few videos of the band surfaced this week of the band playing at a soccer match. Japan is different from American schools in that graduation is in March and they don't take the entire summer off. Since Tachibana used to be a girl's school (before 2000) there are few boys in the band and the boys in the school gravitate towards sports. Another interesting thing is that the band was wearing burgundy, whereas, forever, they wear orange and yellow.