We’ve been experiencing yet more enormous thunderstorms today. As the pace of climate change intensifies scientists predict that the frequency and destructive power of storms will increase. Compared with other major cities around the world Tokyo is perhaps better equipped than most for extreme weather conditions - after all, it receives almost twice as much [...]
Japan’s hay fever (kafunsho) season is at its very worst this week, leaving chemists rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of thousands of red-eyed Tokoites buying-up face masks, anti-histamines and all kinds of herbal remedies to unclog those tubes. To be quite honest I had no idea hay fever struck so early in [...]
Thursday night saw the arrival of Typhoon No. 9 in Tokyo, and it was a big ‘un: Winds reached speeds of 90 kph, at least two people died, and the city’s transportation network was thrown into chaos.
Meanwhile, I slept through the entire event, waking up at 8am to look out of the living room window [...]
Very much enjoyed New York, and forgot about the huge amounts of pot holes on every street between JFK airport and Manhattan. Pot holes held no fears for our shuttle bus driver, however, as we stormed through traffic at 80mph. Springy suspension is the daddy!
Our hotel wasn’t bad at all, though some strange latex cover [...]
Yes indeed, after eighteen months of teaching at A Big university I will finally be moving on to pastures new come the end of December. Learning some Japanese seems to have paid off and I’ve managed to secure a job in central Tokyo doing interesting stuff (well, interesting for me, at least). My new company [...]
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