I've spent some time walking and cycling around the Naha area lately, camera in hand. I haven't really done that in a few years; no ...

 Osaka for New Year as usual. Except, of course, not like usual. Nothing this year has been. New Year sales poster.  On a normal year we...

The year of the cow   Happy New Year everybody! Let's hope the coming year turns out better than this one. /Janne and Ritsuko

December already - time flies. Got the long-sleeved shirts and fleece jackets out already. And we will spend New Year in Osaka as usual, and...

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...