JAPAN-CULTURE-SOCIETY-ART

This picture taken on November 22, 2017 shows a manhole cover designed as Scorpious constellation in Kawaguchi, Saitama prefecture. Japan's sewerage industry has found a way to clean up its dirty and smelly image: elaborately designed and colourful manhole covers with 12,000 local varieties nationwide -- including, of course, a Hello Kitty design. / AFP PHOTO / Behrouz MEHRI / TO GO WITH AFP STORY "JAPAN-CULTURE-SOCIETY-ART,FEATURE" BY MIWA SUZUKI