I was deeply shocked by the video of the huge glacier collapse in Switzerland. I have visited or seen the similar beautiful valleys on my several trips to Switzerland, and can imagine the beauty and the quietude the village Blatten have had, now they are all gone. And I can never imagine how horrible and dreadfully threatening the disaster was. In such tranquil, picturesque place! I just pray for the poor people there...
This morning it was cloudy. Then soon, as the weather forecast has said, it started raining. In the middle of afternoon the rain became heavy, and it became windy, with occasional thunder. After the series of fine days this rain somewhat depressed me :(. We human beings are so simple-minded, just some sunshine makes us feeling positive and just some rain gloomy.
There is another reason why I feel blue, it's about my friend who is always a bit aggressive and bossy. Usually she is a interesting and kind friend - as long as what I say or do comes up to her feelings, if they don't she soon becomes ill-tempered and aggressive. Her sullen, spiteful words really sink my good feelings :( We are going out together on the coming Sunday and when we talked about it on e-mails this happened again - she didn't like some of my opinion and blamed me when she could just say "Oh I don't like that plan but prefer this..."
This is not the first time I feel like this. I have thought she is not a bad person, just has a rough tongue but ... now I feel that she might has a malicious nature. At least she destroyed my expectation for an enjoyable outing on Sunday :(
Well... at least I have my rabbit here in my room, and she always makes me smile :) A real good, great friend of me!

There is another reason why I feel blue, it's about my friend who is always a bit aggressive and bossy. Usually she is a interesting and kind friend - as long as what I say or do comes up to her feelings, if they don't she soon becomes ill-tempered and aggressive. Her sullen, spiteful words really sink my good feelings :( We are going out together on the coming Sunday and when we talked about it on e-mails this happened again - she didn't like some of my opinion and blamed me when she could just say "Oh I don't like that plan but prefer this..."
This is not the first time I feel like this. I have thought she is not a bad person, just has a rough tongue but ... now I feel that she might has a malicious nature. At least she destroyed my expectation for an enjoyable outing on Sunday :(
Well... at least I have my rabbit here in my room, and she always makes me smile :) A real good, great friend of me!

An ordinary, nice Saturday
Apr. 26th, 2025 09:42 pmSaturday. It’s lightly cloudy or mildly sunny. The sky was pale blue and light grey. I did my weekly Saturday routine- vacuumed rooms, wiped the floors. And washed some winter clothes I have worn until just recently. It’s comfortable with occasional cool breeze so I sat down on the bench outside of the entrance door to polish my shoes. From there I could see the white, pink, yellow spring flowers. I thought… though the society was full of terrible news and the world seemed to be losing its sense, and I had no enjoyable plan on this weekend and in near future, still this was a beautiful day and the nature was beautiful. And I felt thankful for my quiet life. I picked some flowers and leaves to put them in the flower vases.
Recently I have seldom met my friends - my best friend is now living in foreign country, other some friends are too busy for their job or taking care of their family, and some have the physical and financial problem - thus they can’t share their free time with me. This condition makes me feel a bit lonely, but I am rather accustomed to this feeling since my childhood, and in my garden I don’t feel like that. Which makes us lonely is always other human beings, human relationship, I think.



Recently I have seldom met my friends - my best friend is now living in foreign country, other some friends are too busy for their job or taking care of their family, and some have the physical and financial problem - thus they can’t share their free time with me. This condition makes me feel a bit lonely, but I am rather accustomed to this feeling since my childhood, and in my garden I don’t feel like that. Which makes us lonely is always other human beings, human relationship, I think.
A few days ago, one Palestinian journalist was killed in Gaza in the missile attack. He was surely not the first journalist killed in that area, and since Israel resumed the massacre people has been dying every day. Though he happened to have been the reporter for one of the biggest Japanese newspaper companies for years so his death and its detailed description was reported in many media here.
Israel often says they want to annihilate Hamas but I believe they just want to kill as many Palestinian as they can, Hamas or no, soldier or infant. This is a genocide. And I see no essential difference between it and the Holocaust by Nazis. During the WW2 the Jewish people had been the victims of the horrible war crimes, but it doesn't mean they have the right to slaughter other people. I don't have any interest in Israeli-Palestinian conflict and much knowledge about it, any particular likes and dislikes or prejudice against Jewish or Arabian people, also one of my good British friends is a Jewish. Still, with such horrible and endless reports from Gaza, how can a decent human have any sympathy with Israel or the Jewish people? Netanyahu is one of the worst war criminals and should have been punished strictly. I can't think he is doing good for the ordinary Israelis.
And, we are all watching what has been happening there for months, years still cannnot do anything to stop the slaughter. This is the worst thing. And USA, the nation once considered a leader of the free nations, has agreed with Israel's crime like they now seem to do the same with Russia.
We are now living in the nightmare, but we are fortunate ones because some people are living in the hell at this very moment.


Even on such crazy time the nature shows the beautiful flowers. Only we human beings are helplessly stupid and cruel.
Israel often says they want to annihilate Hamas but I believe they just want to kill as many Palestinian as they can, Hamas or no, soldier or infant. This is a genocide. And I see no essential difference between it and the Holocaust by Nazis. During the WW2 the Jewish people had been the victims of the horrible war crimes, but it doesn't mean they have the right to slaughter other people. I don't have any interest in Israeli-Palestinian conflict and much knowledge about it, any particular likes and dislikes or prejudice against Jewish or Arabian people, also one of my good British friends is a Jewish. Still, with such horrible and endless reports from Gaza, how can a decent human have any sympathy with Israel or the Jewish people? Netanyahu is one of the worst war criminals and should have been punished strictly. I can't think he is doing good for the ordinary Israelis.
And, we are all watching what has been happening there for months, years still cannnot do anything to stop the slaughter. This is the worst thing. And USA, the nation once considered a leader of the free nations, has agreed with Israel's crime like they now seem to do the same with Russia.
We are now living in the nightmare, but we are fortunate ones because some people are living in the hell at this very moment.


Even on such crazy time the nature shows the beautiful flowers. Only we human beings are helplessly stupid and cruel.
To make new friends...
Mar. 18th, 2025 03:33 pmAbout love, friendship or other fellowship. They are not ... mean looking at each other, but mean looking at the same things - same purpose or goal. Aiming for the same goal and working together make two or more people admire each other. So to make good friends, first we should do or look at something seriously, not just looking for the people we would be able to like. Any job, hobby, something we can love or do in earnest.
So, before retiring from the job in near future, now I feel like I want some more good friends, what should I do ???
So, before retiring from the job in near future, now I feel like I want some more good friends, what should I do ???
On my trip to Ishigaki island I have stayed in a small, reasonable hotel. It's convenient and comfortable enough but the bathtub in the hotel room was a bit small. So after coming home I enjoyed to stretch my legs in hot water in my bathroom :) Also my own pillow felt so comfortable after sleeping on an unfamiliar bedding. I enjoyed my trip very much, though I also felt the mild happiness in my house.
Now it's been a week after the trip, on every workday I go to the office, come home and have supper ... then just 1 or 2 hours left before going to bed. In those evening hours I'm generally tired, don't feel much motivation to do something. So I often take my rabbit Krurun up in my arms, hold her for a while. Her soft fur feels so nice to my cheek, her warmth soothes me much :) It's really, quiet and sheer happiness.
I like travel, and know I'm fortunate to be able to travel sometimes, but maybe the most fortunate thing is that I have this ordinary, usual life.

Now it's been a week after the trip, on every workday I go to the office, come home and have supper ... then just 1 or 2 hours left before going to bed. In those evening hours I'm generally tired, don't feel much motivation to do something. So I often take my rabbit Krurun up in my arms, hold her for a while. Her soft fur feels so nice to my cheek, her warmth soothes me much :) It's really, quiet and sheer happiness.
I like travel, and know I'm fortunate to be able to travel sometimes, but maybe the most fortunate thing is that I have this ordinary, usual life.

The mourning flag after 14 years.
Mar. 11th, 2025 12:47 pmThe 11th March. It's already 14 years, from the fatal day of Tohoku great earthquake and tsunami, and the nuke crisis. The TV news said more than 22 thousand people were killed or missing by them. Surprisingly and tragically, about 2500 people are still missing - their body have not been found. This is, of course, because of the tsunami. Many people, houses and precious things were wasahed away by the massive waves. (The great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 has killed over 6400 people but most of the victims were soon found, just 3 people were still missng.) Thinking about this disaster still brings tears to my eyes.
The earthquake and tsunami are the natural disasters which are essentially unavoidable but the nuke crisis was a man-made disaster, which has been forcing more than 20 thousands people into evacuation life even now.
Just after the disaster I felt, and believed that we had to change many ways of our life and social systems for the sake of the victims. But what has changed better in our society since then? I can't say. We are so stupid, lazy and forgetful. Our life and society are still on the edge of great danger but we behave as if we are totally safe. We really need to reflect our life, society and the nature. Need to think seriously, and act.
This is the gloomy day, and we should be serious and think...

At the entrance of our office.

Some building near our office hoisting flags at half mast.
The earthquake and tsunami are the natural disasters which are essentially unavoidable but the nuke crisis was a man-made disaster, which has been forcing more than 20 thousands people into evacuation life even now.
Just after the disaster I felt, and believed that we had to change many ways of our life and social systems for the sake of the victims. But what has changed better in our society since then? I can't say. We are so stupid, lazy and forgetful. Our life and society are still on the edge of great danger but we behave as if we are totally safe. We really need to reflect our life, society and the nature. Need to think seriously, and act.
This is the gloomy day, and we should be serious and think...

At the entrance of our office.

Some building near our office hoisting flags at half mast.
February is ending…
Feb. 28th, 2025 03:24 pmI suddenly noticed! It's the 28th today, the last day of February! Unbelievable!! Where have the February days gone ???? As I get older, the time seems to pass faster. And my days pass without particular meaning, just ordinarily, ...though thankfully, peacefully.

The view from the skylight of our loft. I can look down the part of our neighbour's garden, now one of their Ume tree is in full bloom. How fortunate we are to have the neighbour who takes good care of their garden trees XD

Small narcissus in our garden :)
BTW during these months in this year I have thought about many things in my life, and in the current society and the world. But most of them are somewhat irritating, unpleasant thought, I don't want to share them with my friends here- at least at the moment - this is the reason why I have writen mostly about the garden cats, my rabbit and garden plants here X( We should not be silent about the important problems in the world, still sometimes it seems to be a decent attitude to restrain the words of grief and despair, or a stream of curse :(
And at least... maybe for the first, I should try to do the things I myself can do. And there are so many things I should do, correct, change...
February is my birth month, I got 1 year older now. But I don't think I have become wiser than before. This means, maybe, I have many things to learn or understand before blaming someone else :(

Krurun this morning. Where is your right ear??

Today’s lunch :)

The view from the skylight of our loft. I can look down the part of our neighbour's garden, now one of their Ume tree is in full bloom. How fortunate we are to have the neighbour who takes good care of their garden trees XD

Small narcissus in our garden :)
BTW during these months in this year I have thought about many things in my life, and in the current society and the world. But most of them are somewhat irritating, unpleasant thought, I don't want to share them with my friends here- at least at the moment - this is the reason why I have writen mostly about the garden cats, my rabbit and garden plants here X( We should not be silent about the important problems in the world, still sometimes it seems to be a decent attitude to restrain the words of grief and despair, or a stream of curse :(
And at least... maybe for the first, I should try to do the things I myself can do. And there are so many things I should do, correct, change...
February is my birth month, I got 1 year older now. But I don't think I have become wiser than before. This means, maybe, I have many things to learn or understand before blaming someone else :(

Krurun this morning. Where is your right ear??

Today’s lunch :)
A good fortune
Feb. 5th, 2025 12:39 pmWe have had cold days since the last weekend. Today the lowest tenperature in early morning in Yokohama was 1 degrees below zero, the highest might be 9°C, the weather forecast said. (Poor garden cats! One of them kept miaowing miserably out of the window when I woke up at 6:30.) I have not been in the best physical condition, one of the problems is that I have had slight headache for a few days now. I think this might be because of the change of the atmospheric pressure :(

The garden ground was covered with the frost this morning…
And this cold air has brought much snow in various areas in Japan. Too much snow causes the disasters every winter in snowy districts, I hope nothing would happen. As for our city Yokohama, fortunately we seldom have much snow as well as big typhoon or heavy rain. In summer it's very hot here too but not the worst heat. Generally Yokohama is a safe city with few natural disasters, the only (and the worst) exception might be the big earthquake (in 1923 the Great Kanto earthquake destroyed the whole city of Yokohama) - but this is rare and unavoidable disaster.
Anyway, I often feel I'm quite fortunate to live in Yokohama, and the reason I live here is not my choice at all, just because my grandfather had built his house here before the WW2. He came from Nagano prefecture, the mountain & snowy area but now there is just our family grave there, no relatives living there. Since my chilldhood, I don't know why but I have thought I would live here when I grow up and never thought about moving to other place. And 12 years ago I have torn down the old houses (which my grandfather and my father had built) to build the new house in which I live in now. Thus I know no other place as my home. This is just by chance, and I think I'm really fortunate to live in a city without much severe weather condition.

The garden ground was covered with the frost this morning…
And this cold air has brought much snow in various areas in Japan. Too much snow causes the disasters every winter in snowy districts, I hope nothing would happen. As for our city Yokohama, fortunately we seldom have much snow as well as big typhoon or heavy rain. In summer it's very hot here too but not the worst heat. Generally Yokohama is a safe city with few natural disasters, the only (and the worst) exception might be the big earthquake (in 1923 the Great Kanto earthquake destroyed the whole city of Yokohama) - but this is rare and unavoidable disaster.
Anyway, I often feel I'm quite fortunate to live in Yokohama, and the reason I live here is not my choice at all, just because my grandfather had built his house here before the WW2. He came from Nagano prefecture, the mountain & snowy area but now there is just our family grave there, no relatives living there. Since my chilldhood, I don't know why but I have thought I would live here when I grow up and never thought about moving to other place. And 12 years ago I have torn down the old houses (which my grandfather and my father had built) to build the new house in which I live in now. Thus I know no other place as my home. This is just by chance, and I think I'm really fortunate to live in a city without much severe weather condition.
The last day of January!
Jan. 31st, 2025 06:16 pmCan you believe?It’s the end of the first month of this year :( Time flies...
And the world is full of bad, unreasonable, terrible news. It's sometimes very difficult to be positive :(
To keep myself calm, I should make the decent routine of daily life. Maybe on this coming weekend I will try to write down the things I should and want to do in my life...
And the world is full of bad, unreasonable, terrible news. It's sometimes very difficult to be positive :(
To keep myself calm, I should make the decent routine of daily life. Maybe on this coming weekend I will try to write down the things I should and want to do in my life...
A box from Europe :)
Jan. 20th, 2025 12:43 pmMonday. I started this week’s work at home. In the morning it’s drizzling, dark and cold. But before noon there came the mild sunshine. The ground was still wet but I saw two cat balls under the bush, they seemed to be enjoying the subtle warmth of the sun.

The world is full of disgusting and terrible news. Needless to say about Ukraine and Palestine, in our neighbouring country, South Korea, they seem to have the great political confusion. The new president of USA and his team would surely do the great harm to the world peace and the environment.(I understand the hate against the Establishment by the ordinary people still it’s totally incomprehensible why Americans can choose such man as their national leader. Do they just love the succeeded richman and can overlook any faults if the man is super rich enough? Quite strange.) In such situation I tend to feel blue, especially on gloomy day.
But thankfully this afternoon I have some sunshine, and! I have just got a small parcel which made me feel so happy. Yes from the Czech! :)


It’s a boxfull homemade biscuites from my great friend Vee! Ohhhh thank you very much!!

I put the contents in a can to avoid the damp, and am going to eat them just bit by bit… they are so precious :). Because, not only they are yummy :) , but also they are from my foreign friend and show that we can have the good friends in far away countries in this uncertain, aggressive world.

The world is full of disgusting and terrible news. Needless to say about Ukraine and Palestine, in our neighbouring country, South Korea, they seem to have the great political confusion. The new president of USA and his team would surely do the great harm to the world peace and the environment.(I understand the hate against the Establishment by the ordinary people still it’s totally incomprehensible why Americans can choose such man as their national leader. Do they just love the succeeded richman and can overlook any faults if the man is super rich enough? Quite strange.) In such situation I tend to feel blue, especially on gloomy day.
But thankfully this afternoon I have some sunshine, and! I have just got a small parcel which made me feel so happy. Yes from the Czech! :)


It’s a boxfull homemade biscuites from my great friend Vee! Ohhhh thank you very much!!

I put the contents in a can to avoid the damp, and am going to eat them just bit by bit… they are so precious :). Because, not only they are yummy :) , but also they are from my foreign friend and show that we can have the good friends in far away countries in this uncertain, aggressive world.
After 30 years, and going out with mother
Jan. 17th, 2025 05:09 pm30 years ago. On 17 Jan 1995, early morning(before 6am). There happened a huge earthquake in the west part of Japan, Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. It's the first huge earthquake which hits the big city of modern Japan. Over 6000 people were killed mostly by the collapse of the buildings, the fire has destroyed huge area. There were no internet then but we were looking at the tragic damages on TV report. It’s an unforgettable horrible image.
15 years later we have experienced the worst one, Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, still the images of Hanshin earthquake make my eyes tear. And whenever I think about those horrible natural disasters, which are the inescapable doom for us living on the Japanese archipelago, I feel big gratitude for my peaceful current life.
Today I took a day off and visited a small but very good hot spring with my mother. A small Japanese style hotel has the hot spring, and they serve very nice meal. We stayed there for about 3 hours, enjoyed the hot spring and nice lunch. Their open-air bath was small but really wonderful!


So I have many reasons to feel thankful...
15 years later we have experienced the worst one, Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, still the images of Hanshin earthquake make my eyes tear. And whenever I think about those horrible natural disasters, which are the inescapable doom for us living on the Japanese archipelago, I feel big gratitude for my peaceful current life.
Today I took a day off and visited a small but very good hot spring with my mother. A small Japanese style hotel has the hot spring, and they serve very nice meal. We stayed there for about 3 hours, enjoyed the hot spring and nice lunch. Their open-air bath was small but really wonderful!


So I have many reasons to feel thankful...
Just being healthy is a bliss
Jan. 13th, 2025 05:10 pmToday I heard that some acquaintance had got injury last autumn, need some surgery and of course he can’t work at the moment. I also heard from one of my close friends about her old parents, both of them are nearly 90 and recently her father had to get into the hospital. Many people have such physical (or old age) problems, it can happen to us anytime. This 2 news made me feel a bit serious.
And I think, how fortunate I am without serious physical problem. I, my mother, even my rabbi Krurun have some minor physical problems but at the moment not serious, I feel really thankful for that.

And I think, how fortunate I am without serious physical problem. I, my mother, even my rabbi Krurun have some minor physical problems but at the moment not serious, I feel really thankful for that.

The last day of the holidays
Jan. 5th, 2025 08:24 pmSunday. The last day of the end-of- year & the New Year holidays. Tomorrow I will work again :(
Today I have spent hours to make an album of travel photos from my UK visit in Oct., also wrote 2 letters, had a cup of tea and stollen which m friend had made and kindly sent to me at the end of Dec. (very yummy!).
Outside of the house, the air is very dry, our garden is now with little flowers and in deep green and earthy colours. Though I like this quiet colors of winter.


In my room my rabbit Krurun is relaxing under my armchair as usual, like she was in the last year.

It's quite ordinary, eventless days but I feel thankful for these peaceful days. And I hope people would have such quiet peaceful days in any place in this world ...
Outside of the house, the air is very dry, our garden is now with little flowers and in deep green and earthy colours. Though I like this quiet colors of winter.


In my room my rabbit Krurun is relaxing under my armchair as usual, like she was in the last year.

It's quite ordinary, eventless days but I feel thankful for these peaceful days. And I hope people would have such quiet peaceful days in any place in this world ...
The holiday, and the New Year
Dec. 27th, 2024 08:29 pmToday was the last workday in 2024 for me. In our office we have the end of a year & the new year holiday from 30 Dec to 3 Jan - this is quite common in many Japanese offices. This year, this holiday is just between 2 weekend so we have 9 holidays in all. Very fortunate :)
But now I noticed that I have not thought about what I would do during this long New Year holiday at all, I have no plan. Of course there are things I do every year - the end of a year house cleaning, family gathering etc. I know I would not go out for I don't like the crowded places - many people visit the shrines or temples, or just enjoy going out. And ... I feel it's somewhat a pity that I don't have any particular plan for such long holiday :(
Now I and friends have got older, most of my friends are busy. I myself have many things to think or do to take care of my house. And I'm afraid that I might have become duller and lazier :(
Siblings are incipient strangers.
Nov. 21st, 2024 12:47 pmThe temperature has dropped. Yesterday it's raining all day and it was around 8°C - it’s the temperature of winter :( - so it was a gloomy day. I have had slight stomachache maybe because I had eaten much XD recently, this discomfort (and my own stupidity) made me feel irritating and blue :(
My sister, who lives in Tokyo, is staying with us for 3 nights now for she has some conference or exhibition in Yokohama for her job. She is generally busy and seldom visit us so I had been somewhat looking forward to her visit. But in reality, her stay somewhat disturbes the pace of my life. And after the conversation with her, as I always do, I keenly notice that how different we are. I believe we have good relationship as sisters but it's mainly because both of us are independent, manage each life without little help by other. We sometimes exchange the informations and opinions about various things but not very often, and in some topics our opinions are not same at all. Thus talking with her often tires me. This time too, her talking somewhat made me feel like I'm ignorant and incompetent as it has many many times before. And I think, though being my own sister she has a different personality (of course!), and we can never understand other individual...

My sister, who lives in Tokyo, is staying with us for 3 nights now for she has some conference or exhibition in Yokohama for her job. She is generally busy and seldom visit us so I had been somewhat looking forward to her visit. But in reality, her stay somewhat disturbes the pace of my life. And after the conversation with her, as I always do, I keenly notice that how different we are. I believe we have good relationship as sisters but it's mainly because both of us are independent, manage each life without little help by other. We sometimes exchange the informations and opinions about various things but not very often, and in some topics our opinions are not same at all. Thus talking with her often tires me. This time too, her talking somewhat made me feel like I'm ignorant and incompetent as it has many many times before. And I think, though being my own sister she has a different personality (of course!), and we can never understand other individual...

A question (about the holiday cottage)
Nov. 11th, 2024 06:56 pmOn my holiday trip to UK I have stayed in a holiday cottage. It was a lovely old building on the nice location, I enjoyed my stay in it. But also, because it's the first time for me to stay in that kind of accommodation, there were some things which seemed new or strange to me.
That cottage has the weekly rental system, so any (or, most of) guest stay there for 1 week - 7 nights. In the correspondence with me before the visit the cottage owner has wrote to me that they provide "everything except food" in the cottage. So I expected there must be some towels in the cottage. It 's a 2 bedroom cottage, so essentially 4 people can stay there. And, I found 4 big towels in the bedrooms - 1 towel for each guest. And there was no washing machine in the cottage.
I traveled alone, also have brougnt some small towels so no problem, but my question was, does the English guest use just 1 towel for a whole week??? It's a holiday cottage so during the daytime guests might do walking or marine activities, and have shower every day. How they can manage without washing the towels? For 2 night or 3 night ... it might be OK, but for 7 night stay! Don't they need the clean towels every day ...or every 2 or 3 days????
This is not a complain but a question. I really feel curious about this. Here in Japan, because of the high humidity, washing a (once used)towel every day is quite common, otherwise the towel would get stink soon :( In ordinary hotels they usually exchange the towels every day unless the guest tell them he doesn't need it.
So my Western friends, how many towels do you use in a week???
That cottage has the weekly rental system, so any (or, most of) guest stay there for 1 week - 7 nights. In the correspondence with me before the visit the cottage owner has wrote to me that they provide "everything except food" in the cottage. So I expected there must be some towels in the cottage. It 's a 2 bedroom cottage, so essentially 4 people can stay there. And, I found 4 big towels in the bedrooms - 1 towel for each guest. And there was no washing machine in the cottage.
I traveled alone, also have brougnt some small towels so no problem, but my question was, does the English guest use just 1 towel for a whole week??? It's a holiday cottage so during the daytime guests might do walking or marine activities, and have shower every day. How they can manage without washing the towels? For 2 night or 3 night ... it might be OK, but for 7 night stay! Don't they need the clean towels every day ...or every 2 or 3 days????
This is not a complain but a question. I really feel curious about this. Here in Japan, because of the high humidity, washing a (once used)towel every day is quite common, otherwise the towel would get stink soon :( In ordinary hotels they usually exchange the towels every day unless the guest tell them he doesn't need it.
So my Western friends, how many towels do you use in a week???
No more Hibakusha
Oct. 12th, 2024 09:57 pmNihon Hidankyō, The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2024. As a Japanese I'm pleased to hear the news. Especially when I think about that the Hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombs have suffered, not only from the tragic experience, the loss, and the physical & mental agony but also from the lack of understanding & prejudice many years, I'm really glad that they have won the respect from the world.
But this presentation means the serious warning to us all. Now there are many terrible wars in various places in the world, we get accustomed to hearing the terrible news and maybe, we have become insensitive to the tragedies I'm afraid. And in some areas the real madmen and despicable men rule the countries - Putin, Netanyahu, Kim Jong Un. In USA crazy Trump might return to the Power. As long as we human being possess the nuclear weapons they would be eventually used. It's certain.
It's far easier to be cynical and give up the abolition of the nuclear weapons. Though even if we see little possibility, still we have to hope and move, for the world free from those catastrophic weapons.
But this presentation means the serious warning to us all. Now there are many terrible wars in various places in the world, we get accustomed to hearing the terrible news and maybe, we have become insensitive to the tragedies I'm afraid. And in some areas the real madmen and despicable men rule the countries - Putin, Netanyahu, Kim Jong Un. In USA crazy Trump might return to the Power. As long as we human being possess the nuclear weapons they would be eventually used. It's certain.
It's far easier to be cynical and give up the abolition of the nuclear weapons. Though even if we see little possibility, still we have to hope and move, for the world free from those catastrophic weapons.
Tired night
Sep. 27th, 2024 10:52 pmThere are many things I have to do and I want to do. During the daytime I work so I have to do them in the evening or on weekend. But everyday, after supper I feel so tired and sleepy, find no energy to do those tasks, just spend the precious hours before going to bed with doing nothing, and I hate my idleness, every evening I hate it but can not do anything, just waste my precious free time, waste m life. There must be something wrong with my life, how to use my time. During daytime I think of many things I want to do, there come many ideas. But just, my to- do list is becoming long because I can do nothing in the evening and on weekend I don’t have enough time every time. I don’t like myself in weekday evening. Just waste.
What the old earrings make me think…
Aug. 22nd, 2024 06:10 pmToday I went to the office, and I was wearing the old beads earrings and pendant which I bought many years ago - maybe about 40 years ago, when I was very young. Naturally they were not expensive things, just glass beads. But I like them, have handled them carefully always. And whenever I wear them I think about the years I have spent since I got them as a young woman. Now I’m in the last half of my life, and how have I changed or improved myself - or, have I not?


And this world, the society, our life. They are clearly far more … convenient than before, but are they better? More hope and dream? I’m afraid not. Maybe it’s - why I feel like this is just because I got older now - I rather hope i’s the main reason why I can’t see this world with much hope.


And this world, the society, our life. They are clearly far more … convenient than before, but are they better? More hope and dream? I’m afraid not. Maybe it’s - why I feel like this is just because I got older now - I rather hope i’s the main reason why I can’t see this world with much hope.