It's the middle of the week already and the only extra masks I'm seeing are on service industry employees–convenience store cashiers and people working in restaurants mostly. I was expecting to see a repeat of what it was like in Osaka a few weeks ago where it looked like 9 out of 10 people were [...]
Entries from May 2009
Swine flu fails in Tokyo
May 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: General
Lightning strikes!
May 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Last night while the rest of my family was at a soccer match, lightning struck about 100 meters from our house and blew out our TV, VCR, Wii, phone, wife's PC and fried the network card in my PC. Luckily the fridge, washer and air conditioners were spared. On the bright side, with nothing left [...]
Tags: General
Swine Flu: Welcome To Tokyo
May 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
No surprise at all, but the Flu of Death officially has arrived in the Kanto region–one case in Tokyo of a 16 year-old girl who recently came back from a mock UN in NYC, and another student in Kawasaki, west of Tokyo. Seems to me that constant bombardment of government and media-inspired panic of the [...]
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