My So-Called Japanese Life

One of the few trees outside our apartment on one of the few days that it snows. It's snowing today in Tokyo. I know what you're thi...

As the end of August approaches each year, I start thinking that hope that the un-ending muggy and hot weather is at hand. More often than n...

It's been in the mid to high 90's for the past week or so in Tokyo. I guess this is par for the course in August but it never ceases...

A typhoon has bled over into Tokyo bringing cooler air and constant rain. It's not a really bad typhoon, mind you. The worst one I'v...

I'm getting tired of this thing coming up looking like a near-win on a slot machine. There's a typhoon in the air and the air is opp...

If places that have a proper winter are visited by "old man winter", Tokyo is visited by the much less crotchety and severe "...

Any time the topic of the weather is initially broached with students, they will earnestly tell you "Japan has 4 seasons." They te...