A Thousand Miles From Nowhere...

I've been up to so much in the last month since reaching Australia that I'm way behind on my reports. I'm working on it! :) The...

While the aftereffects of the triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power plant) continue to shock Japan, I have moved from Japan to...

What a great idea! http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20110323a1.html

It is interesting to look at the news reports which are coming from within Japan, as broadcast by Japanese media in Japanese, those which ar...

When I lived in Qatar, the backs of the Kahramaa (the electricity company) bills said in both Arabic and English, "Electricity and wate...

--So after 2 days of Group 2 not having its keikakuteiden (planned power outage), we finally had our first one yesterday. Our group time wa...

A bit of informal sociology : In a society which exists on detailed planning and organization, how do the people survive when a number of un...

That has been the question today. Last night the announcement was made by Tepco that the Kanto region would move to scheduled electricity o...

If you are reading this blog and located in an area serviced by TEPCO, here is the .pdf of the planned outage groups, broken down by prefect...

2.5 days have now elapsed since the devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit the Tohoku region of Japan, and in the Kanto region life is s...