CLUE 1 - SOLUTION

Although the transparency is very hard to read, the Japanese consists of a mix of kanji, hiragana, and katakana characters. Katakana is the symbol set that is used to represent foreign words phonetically by breaking them down into syllables; it contains about 50 characters (see chart below).

The only katakana is found in the fourth row, which is mostly katakana. It reads:

 
   
             

And the answer is:

SAN FRANCISCO GLEN CANYON PARK

Clue 2