It's the tail end of October, and I've just had my summer holiday. OIST actually granted me two days of summer leave even though I s...

So we survived our first typhoon here in Okinawa intact. It was — and is — quite a strong one, but also fairly small, and it veered off enou...

We got our first typhoon here in Naha. As I write this around lunchtime, typhoon #18 is south of the main island, and the weather is still f...

Everywhere you go here, people are wearing colourful short-sleeved shirts called "Kariyushi". They're similar to Hawaiian Alo...

We've arrived, settled in and I've started working. Lots of things to write about, so I'm just going to summarize briefly. We ...

So, we're finally leaving for Naha. That typhoon I was so worried about? It has been very obliging so far. We feared it would head strai...

We have had a very quiet typhoon season this year, with nary a single storm hitting the mainland or Okinawa. But now that our things are loa...