Summer is here

Well, as the cherry blossoms are out it seems a good time to revamp this page.  Out with the old posts and in with the new.  This season brings warmer weather, a new school term and therefore new JETs, new University students, more roadworks - shotengai "trench" being one prime example, end of the tax returns, electioneering...loudspeakers, much bowing and thanking all and sundry, and of course the Shinkansen (which bypasses Futsukaichi completely - must get a famous politician in Futsukaichi one day to get a stop put in...)