Warm season

Unusual cold season seems to be finished in Tokyo.
It's very warm,today.
People go out and enjoy the sun shining.

Obi One Kenobi

Who is acting OBI ONE ?

One year

One year has passed after the big disaster in northern Japan.
Please pray for those who passed away by it.
Don't forget the 3.11 and "ARIGATO" for the support to Japan.

Birds around the river

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker(Dendrocopos kizuki)

Japanese white-eye known as mejiro.

Halcyon.

flowers of the snow

We had snow again.

snow

It's snowing after 35 days dry weather in Tokyo.
Good to see the ground covered with snow .

Pyracantha

Pyracantha or Firethorn,producing red berry.

2012 has started !

On the 1st of January, people go to a near shrine and pray for the healthy , peaceful life there.

The 2011 was not good year, so many people, I guess, go there and pray for the tsunami suffered area.

2012 is the year of the dragon. I hope this country will go up strongly, peacefully !
I pray for it.

Needle ice

In cold winter,you can find the needle ice everywhere around a field here.
The subterranean liquid water is popping up on surface.

When I see the ice needle, I feel the real winter has come.

folded paper crane

10 km run

Tanzawako Marathon was held on the 27th of Nov.
I joined and run 10km around the lake Tanzawa.
Time was 71 min. and completed !

This Lake Tanzawa is the artificial lake that was created in 1978.
The old houses which used to be there on the bottom of the lake were abandoned.
Now the nature around the lake is preserved and you can enjoy the beautiful scenic view in spring, autumn especially.

Azalea

When I was climbing down, I found this flower.

The view of Mt.Yatsugatake from Mt.Kayagatake

Yatsugatake is here.
Kayagatake is the mountain of 1704 meters in height.

Let’s go to the real bright future.

Tokyo seems to have returned to the normal life.
Trains have resumed the original time table and operations are in standard service now.
But most of companies are saving electric power.
The government has asked us to cut the power up to 25%, comparing to the previous year.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has the capability of supplying 36,000kW in the end of March, 2011 due to the devastating earthquake occurred in the 11th March。
Summer is the peak season of consuming electric power in Japan.
So, it is said that TEPCO needs to supply at least 55,000kW in the end of July.
As of the 20th April, TEPCO can supply 41,500kW, in the meantime 33,500kw will be expected to consume.
So far, so good now.
But hot summer is coming. You need to save the power more.

The governor of Tokyo Metropolitan City said that the power of many vending machines scattered in Tokyo should be cut. You can save the power comparable to one NUC power plant by doing so.
This is the quite radical opinion but I will go with him ;)
Now every train stations, shops in Tokyo are a little bit dark in order to save the power.
Even in business office they cut some of fluorescent lamps over your head.

So Japan is now a bit dark but even so brighter than the cities in EU and USA.
Japan was consuming a lot of power in the past. Now is the good chance to reconsider our life.
Physically Japan is now dark country but it could invent energy-saving systems more than before.
When it could succeed in inventing many good systems, Japan would be a logically brighter country than it used to be.
I hope Japan is going in the right direction.

Vending machines at a train station.

The support for the northern Japan (Tohoku area)

Now we are supporting Tohoku area in Japan by buying the products manufactured there.

Bee's nest

Cherry blossom

Cherry blossom

Spring has come. All cherry trees are now blooming in Tokyo area.
But government announced that you should refrain from flower festival or flower-viewing parties under cherry trees, which many people will hope to do so.
The reason why they announced was to consider the thoughts of the evacuees from the great TSUNAMI.
The evacuees are under pressure how to survive the difficulties of poor life condition after the quake.

Many people, however, are thinking that this is bureaucratic thought.
Consumers should consume things you want. Otherwise, our economy will be shrinking rapidly.
Without healthy economy, you can not help the evacuees.
You can support the refugees with buying the products which will be manufactured by the survivors.
In order to rise again, you should not refrain from even flower festival or flower-viewing parties.

The radioactive substances are coming !

The radioactive substance,Iodine 131was found at Kanamachi Wastewater Treatment Works in Tokyo.
This seems to be spewed by Nuclear Plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan.
Governor has announced that the infants under one year old should NOT  be given tap water as far as possible in specified area.
In announcement, he said he is preparing 240,000 bottled-water for the infants in return.

At a store (2)

At the same store near my office on 24th,March.
They seem to be supplying foods to sell.
Please compare this photo with the other one on my blog.

At a store

This store is located near my office (Yotsuya in Tokyo), having poor stock to sell.
The photo was taken at 8 am.