April 18, 2021 Looking back a year ago, as Covid infection spread over the world, surgical masks disappeared from shelves of drug stores.Japanese government lead by prime minister at that time, Mr. Abe, decided to deliver 2 plies of masks to each home. They were ironically called abenomask, punned on his economic policy, abenomics. While […]
April 11, 2021 Vaccines are yet too far away for most citizens in Japan, where COVID cases are gradually increasing again. People are tired of restrained life and moving in and around Tokyo.Although less people are hanging out after work, morning scenes seem to be quite different. Crowded rush hour trains have resumed.A train is […]
April 4, 2021 April in Japan is a kind of special month. New lives start in many places. Students enter new schools or start new grades. Many of graduated students begin to work. Workers welcome young colleagues. Japanese system may be a bit unique but school term starts in April, so as true for fiscal […]
People were having peaceful lives before the coup in Mandalay. November, 2019. Mandalay Air Port Night life in the outskirt of Mandalay Ayeyarwady River Streets in downtown Mandalay The Mandalay Royal Palace Markets in downtown Mandalay Zegyo Market Railway station Hope peaceful lives soon return to Mandalay and all over Burma.
The state of emergency issued in Tokyo area is lifted by the Japanese government today.Even under the state of emergency, daily lives here seem to be normal, and the new COVID cases have been slightly increasing for the last couple of weeks. Last year, in 2020, the government did not take any effective measure against […]
Trains and subways are the most important transportation methods in Tokyo.Majority of office workers take trains to commute, probably 30 to 40 minutes rides in average calculating from average commuting time of 1 hour. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people went out to eat and drink after work, sometimes from a bar to another bar. It […]
It has just 10 years passed since the disastrous mega quake in eastern Japan and following melt down at Fukushima nuclear power plant. Japanese medias are looking back on the disaster and people suffered by it. I was having a late lunch at a coffee shop in Tokyo around 2:45pm on March 11, 2011 when […]
Japanese are celebrating girls today, on March 3. Parents and other family members pray healthy grow up of little girls in traditional manners. A set of dolls are decorated at homes, girls eat special cookies and drink “sake” like liquors. Those who drink the liquors must be grown up girls though. So, the “girls’ day” […]
If you have visited Tokyo or other cities of Japan in February – March period, you must have realized almost all people were wearing surgical masks. I am one of these people wearing a mask. Cedar pollens is the allergen floating in the air during February to early April, which affect about 1/4 of the […]
Six weeks have passed since the state of emergency declared over COVID-19 in populated areas in Japan such as Tokyo, Osaka and etc. Japan is in third wave of the Corona infection. The state of emergency was declared last year in April, when various facilities were closed or shorten business hours including restaurants and bars […]