Day: April 14, 2025

For today, I had booked a walking tour / cooking class with Kozo, a native of Hiroshima. He’d spent some time in the U.S. so his English was fluent. Google translate was not necessary. We were the only two people on the tour. We started at the Peace Memorial, moved on to Hiroshima castle and…

Rainy day here in Hiroshima, but at least it wasn’t black rain.  We took a walking tour with Kozo, a retired businessman who was raised here.  He took us to places we missed when we concentrated on the Peace Memorial Park yesterday, and then we went back to his apartment and he showed us how to prepare…

Imagine being in a land of frequent earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and hearing air raid sirens.  The first time I heard them in Osaka, might felt a few heart palpitations. Then we heard them in Kagoshima and thought maybe Mt Sakurajima was going to finally belch lava instead of grey clouds of gas. Now in…