Does Anyone Want a Free Parakeet?

Outside a drugstore right across the street from the University of Tokyo's Hongo campus, two parakeets in their cages. The one in the back has a sign that reads, "It is well-behaved. For 10,000 yen."

For the other bird, the card reads, "We will give you a bird. Please bring your own box." Apparently, this parakeet has less value.

The view from across the street: the University of Tokyo's famed red gate.