The above phrase roughly translates into "Can't get really excited about (something)". I've heard it a lot when people talk about the Tokyo Olympics. With most of the Kanto area, along with Osaka and Okinawa, being in a state of COVID-19 e…

...I've been working on a creative writing project for the past two weeks. Hence the lack of activity here. It's mostly a kind of "Get the monkey off ones back" type of project. So I'm not planning to go into details about its contents her…

I think it was a couple of Fridays ago. I was heading home at night on Route 13 and had reached the end of the double laned section which starts at the south end of the Kaminoyama High Bridge (yes, an 500m long overpass over railway tracks…