Hey @dbooster, I am going to go with the last photo of the Baptist Church, because it's a Baptist church in Japan. I suppose there could be Bapist churches near one of the bases, but I have never seen one in or around Tokyo. Intersting find.
As for the paint job, you know as well as I Japanese wouldn't make a mistake like that. English is almost like decoration to Japanese so I would suspect it was meant to be like that.
I'll definitely start using the randomjapan tag from here on out. We have an infinite source of material to work with and I've got nothing but time. Cheers.
hah, see I am of the opposite opinion. I have seen enough mistakes and ignoring those mistakes hoping no one would notice in my 15+ years here that that seems much the norm to me. But you might be right—taken as a decoration only, they might have considered this good looking. Very curious.
Anyway, thank you for the great comment and glad to hear you will start using the #randomjapan tag. You have a lot of great random photos on your blog—they will be excellent additions!