I've started checking the Amu Plaza online events calendar more carefully for stuff with live stages. On the 21st, they had an event promoting the coast guard in "Cangoxina." I'd never heard this name before, and originally I thought it had to do with some place in China. However, according to the Samurai wiki, the region in Kagoshima that belonged to the Shimadzu family and supporters back after the late 1300's had appeared on European maps as Cangoxina (maybe in the 1500's). For some reason, the event on the 21st related Kagoshima to the Japanese coast guard, with "lunch time" and evening concerts by the Coast Guard marching brass band, and a girl's school orchestra. (Maybe it was part of the 70th anniversary of the coast guard.)
I couldn't get to Amu Plaza until after 1 PM, after the lunch time concert had finished. There was almost nothing going on then.
The recruiting people had little to do.
But at least they had lots of chairs.
Which they needed that evening. I returned at 6 PM, and the place was packed.
The school students joined the marching band for the big finale. It was pretty good if you like brass band music.
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