So, few nights back. Standing on the terrace, chatting with my mate from next door. He’s telling me about his experience of running the Tokyo marathon the day before. Shoes this, rain that, 10 kilometres here, and then, he said to me “was the best bit, I ran past Jesus”. And he describes it..he runs past a figure in a billowing white dress. The guy has the long straggly hair, all the more straggly due to being completely rain drenched. The guy has a beard. And on his head, a crown of thorns. And the guy, saviour of us all, is carrying a wooden cross. And at the top of his wooden cross there is his marathon running bib number tacked on.

Sometimes people tell you stuff, and you just think to your self, now there was a picture….Jesus Christ running a marathon. Nice. I’d have liked that photograph.

But a few years back I did get a shot of the Tokyo police department carrying a crucifix. That made me smile as I was taking it.

2003 Japan, Anti-America and anti- Iraq war demonstration. – Images by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert