I’m back again in Japan. I have been in the USA for the graduation of my oldest son from UCSD and youngest son from USC and in The Netherlands for the celebration of my mother-in-law’s 80th birthday and for visiting and being with my middle son.

I got a very bad cold the day after I arrived and I start coughing now, but I don’t have a fever. So, I don’t think it is the Swine flu.
Entering Japan was not easy. The first time from the USA the health checkers came into the airplane, retrieving the filled out papers about in what countries you had visited and in the meantime checking us with a temperature instrument to see if someone had a fever. The second time, June 9, the rules were more relaxed and we could leave the plane and give the papers at a check point before entering the airport. Now, I will stay here for a while and for sure I will be healthy by then.

The weather is still quite bearable, especially here in Zaimokuza, the neighborhood in which I live, and where there is most of the time a breeze from the sea. June is rainy season and the humidity increases. There was a big storm the first day I arrived and probably it will rain again tomorrow, but for today luckily it stayed dry with all the clouds in the sky.

It is still Sunday today, but evening. There were lots of people out enjoying the beach. People walking along the beach,                     children digging in the sand and jumping in the waves,

and special group gatherings on the beach like the Hawaii Club. Japanese people like anything from Hawaii: food, cloths and especially the music and dance.

The band is playing and the people are playing along on their Ukuleles.

Also, the summer season is almost upon us and they build again the summer recreation houses and restaurants on the beach for the vacationers and summer guests until the beginning of September.

And then there was the Zaimokuza neighborhood festival today.