Working at a research institute has some occasional benefits. One is the ready availability of materials and expertise for all kinds of lab ...

A long, long summer and a long, long year. After a very well-contained first wave of infections, COVID started spreading rapidly in Japan ag...

I'm bored. I'm working at home because of the Corona virus; we've spent our weekends and the entire Golden Week vacation at ho...

I've now worked from home for three weeks. During this period Japan and Okinawa predictably went from "I'm sure somebody is tak...

It's been a month and more, and here on Okinawa we're still doing well. Japan was one of the earliest countries to get infected, bu...

It's Ritsuko's birthday, and this year we were going to celebrate with a concert and birthday dinner in Osaka this weekend. Except...

The tradition for Valentine's day in Japan is that women gift men; then the men reciprocate a month later on "White day". That...