Anyone who lives in Japan or has spent time here during the run-up to an election knows what a headache that can be, with sound-trucks circling your house or business, with shrill obaachan incessantly screaming out the name of whoever through a megaphone.

You can perhaps sympathise then with those in the Philippines. Today is election day there, which means that for the last few weeks, the good citizens of those islands have also been labouring under the assault of electioneers. But in the Philippines, the barrage is visual.

This is what some streets in Manila look like at election time.

AP photo via BBC News

More electioneering / littering has been captured by Flickr users and can be viewed here and here.

It may look like it, but it ain’t no party. And some poor blighter’s got to start clearing all that up tomorrow morning.