Visual Anthropology: The Machine of Vender

As most people know by now that I have lived in both America and Japan for good amount of time. One thing I noticed in Japan that I seem to encounter more than convenient store is vending machine. I seriously see this drink provider machine everywhere, I mean everywhere. Amazing part of this machine is provision of variety of drinks from soda pops, coffee, alcohol, juice, Japanese green tea, sport drink, energy drink, and even cigarettes. Now from my experience from America, I have only seen 4 or 5 different types of which included water, sports drink, few different types of soda pops. Currently, there are over 2 million vending machines in Japan. The number of vending machines are very convenient for me and I'm sure for the rest of the people. The price of individual drinks varies from size, but usually around 120 yen ($1.50), and at very convenient price. Now that I am writing about vending machine, I come to realize that I use vending machines very often, as matter of fact almost everyday. I even used vending machine to buy Calpis Soda, which is Japanese oriented pop soda, by far my favorite drink in Japan. I also watched Television about vending machine that vending machine company offers a job that requires to find a spot for the machine and negotiate with person who ever owns that particular land property and if he or she succeeds in negotiation, I've heard that you can receive pretty good amount of money. Now this is interesting.