And So It Goes

A note I just sent to the British Embassy...

Just sent to the British Embassy here in Tokyo:

To whom it may concern:

I was browsing your website, looking for the history of your legation, when I found your history page

http://ukinjapan.fco.gov.uk/en/our-offices-in-japan/our-embassy/embassy-history

Unfortunately, the last sentence on the page reads "The British Embassy is famous for its cherry tress".

Unless the Embassy has some fame regarding its hair colour I wasn't previously aware of, I'll have to assume that's a spelling error. You may wish to correct it.

Going Ape

I came across this, er, statue in front of an house in Mediamae last weekend while on my way to a Tesco Express store I'd been told about. I don't have have the slightest clue what it's about, nor even a halfway plausible theory.

Another muggy day

It's probably been cooler than average in terms of raw numbers in Tokyo this summer, but man, the humidity is just awful. Essentially, I've had difficulties sleeping for the last month because of weather (and no, I'd rather not run the air conditioning all night, thank you), not getting to sleep until oh-dark-thirty sometimes -- which contributes to a sense of torpor throughout the day. Heat I can take -- after all, I used to walk a mail-delivery route in 100-degree California weather -- but Asian tropical humidity? Not so much, still.