What better to put on your design blog on such a day but your Dad in an ad? Here's Tanya's Dad John in a Sapporo Beer poster from 1959. 

The text reads:
Genuine London kid 
Cornish-kun    Second dan at the Kodokan
Living in Japan for two years    
What I like is Judo, tempura 
and this Sapporo Beer!

There's a wacky lack of punctuation so our buddy Tadashi who helped with the translation, advised we leave it out too. (Thanks Tadashi!). The straplines at the bottom read:

45 degrees north is the true home of beer  
Munich • Sapporo • Milwaukee.
SAPPORO

So what does this mean?