Happy New Year, 明けましておめでとうございます och Ett Gott Nytt År!
We're leaving the Year of the Pig and entering the Year of the Rat according to the Chinese zodiac. It naturally means we have license to plaster rodent images everywhere over the next year. I couldn't find a willing subject in time for this post - I'm not about to scour the nighttime alleys of Shinsaibashi for a rat during New Year's evening - so this rodent was happy to stand in.