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Angry Bird
Can’t believe what this bird tried to do ! Was a close shot…
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Policewoman
A Japanese Policewoman and her motorcycle in Hiroshima !
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Panda Fish
One of my panda fishes – panda corydoras – cute little bugger ;-)
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Gunma Panorama
In addition to this amazing view, the road to get there was also a lot of fun to drive. Photo by Fumiko Ichikawa as there was no memory card in my Camera !
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Haruna Lake – Frozen !
Relaxing Sunday in Gunma with an amazing landscape around Mt Haruna.
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Lonely
How I sometime feel when facing the sheer stupidity of some of my foreign colleagues in reaction to what is happening in Japan. As one of my friend said, after the earthquake, the tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the 4th disaster that Japan is suffering from is stupidity from abroad. Photo by Fumiko ...
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Soothing Saturday by the Sea
Relaxing time by the ocean at Jogashima Island Park, south of Tokyo.
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Sapeurs-Pompiers Monaco
Sapeurs-Pompiers from Monaco, back from Sendai, doing their laundry right in front of my house in Tokyo before heading back home.
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Deadly Radioactive Dust covers Tokyo
Those alarming photographs were shot this morning (26/03) in Tokyo ! As you can clearly see from the photos, a thin and suspicious yellow dust has accumulated on a balcony in Shinjuku ! It can be seen everywhere in Tokyo. I know from a reliable source – an english teacher from Australia based in Okinawa ...
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Flag at Half Mast
One of the few visible consequences of the Great Tohoku Earthquake here in Tokyo : a Japanese flag at half mast, here at the fire station close to my home.
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Parking Warning
Reads that if an earthquake of magnitude 5 and above occurs, do not operate the parking machine. In other words, if an earthquake of magnitude 5 and above occurs in Shinjuku, I am really stuck at home.
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Water Issue
The Metropolitan Waterworks Bureau announced on Wednesday that 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine (I-131) were detected on Tuesday in one liter of water at a purification plant in northern Tokyo. The Metropolitan government is calling on residents in Tokyo’s 23 wards and 5 adjacent cities to refrain from giving tap water to infants aged less ...
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Gasoline Finally
First time in almost two weeks that no restriction was imposed at my local gas station.
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Hello Kitty Toilet Paper
Found this in a supermarket in Japan : Hello Kitty toilet paper with strawberry smell ! Incidentally, I bought those rolls on the very morning of the Great Tohoku Earthquake on March 11th and took those photos shortly before the quake…
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Shortage Notices
The signs read that (I summarize) due to the Great Tohoku Earthquake, some items are short of supply. For instance: batteries, flash-lights, gas cassettes and cassettes-based gas stove. They also apologise and mention that unfortunately they do not know when new supply will be received – the main reason being that unaffected areas such as ...
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Cassette Feu
Present from Hiroshima to bring back to Tokyo. A cassette based gas stove is something that became impossible to find in Tokyo and is likely to become handy to cope with power cuts.
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Shabu Shabu
Family time in Hiroshima :-)
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川の字 – kawanoji
When the family sleeps on the same mat. Our short vacation in Hiroshima are coming to an end and we are heading back home – Tokyo – on Monday,
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Meanwhile in Hiroshima
Life goes on and offers a relaxing break for the family. The only visible thing in the streets – as far as I can tell – that reminds people of the terrible events that have struck the North East of Japan is the presence here and there of people asking for donations.
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Shinkansen
Getting away from Tokyo for a few days. Hope to look back and think it was useless.
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Goodbye Tokyo
This morning I was happy to wake up with the first good news in days : the likelihood of a large tremor (with a magnitude of 7 or more) occurring before Thursday was reduced from 70% to 40%. Unfortunately shortly after breakfast, bad news about the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant started pouring in (by bad ...