2005/2006 is the German Year in Japan, featuring a lot of cultural and other events. Sadly, I have not been able / found the time / been interested to take part in any of them. But today we went to Deutsch-Land in the Shinagawa Prince Hotel. The main attraction is a big collection of Steiff stuffed animals. In addition to that, there is the Deutsch-Market, consisting of a car dealer, and a few booths selling imported food, character goods (Janosch, and the Maus, who is the mascot of the German Year and even has her own Japanese blog ), and World Cup 2006 merchandise (including some seemingly unofficial Beckenbauer T-shirts with a characteristic spelling mistake).