Typhoon #2 hit Japan over the weekend. It ran right over Okinawa main island then aimed straight for Honshu. Okinawa, Kyushu, parts of Shiko...

Tsuyu - the rainy season - has arrived in Kansai. It's early; it normally starts around the second week of June. Also, Okinawa is expect...

Time for some bellyaching. I have a collection of RSS feeds from various research journals that show me recently published papers I might b...

Ritsuko gave me a Gakkenflex for Christmas last year. It is a kit film camera from Otona no Kagaku; I wrote about their wonderful Stirling...

Not so Cool Biz. A recurring feature here every summer lately is "Cool Biz"; a campaign to limit air conditioner use in offices...

I'm slowly working through the images from Okinawa. At the same time I'm starting preparations - for going to Okinawa. I'm going...

We're back from the Yaeyama islands in Okinawa, with sunburns, bottles of awamori and black sugar umeshū, pineapples and bananas, sand a...