Climate summit in Glasgow

For many years, scientists estimated different timelines and temperature increase limits on the global warming. At this point I cannot tell whether we have crossed the point of no return for sure. I think we have but, hey, who am I to tell

µ-variant, running out of letters?

We may run out of the letters soon. Kent variant, South African variant, Indian variant, ... then we changed it to Greek letters. Apparently they worried that it may foster bias against a certain ethnic group. People in Kent didn't say anyt

Translators in Tokyo

Good morning It is drizzling this morning but not too bad. It may be nice after a few extremely hot days. On the title topic, I wanted to share my experience and have you tell us your experiences. It is about interpreters and translators

Afghanistan and then Paralympics

Morning, yesterday two bombs went off at the Kabul's airport. My thoughts go for those who lost their lives and were wounded in what appeared to be suicide bomber attacks, especially for those Afghans desperate to leave their birth place. B

New Day

Good morning, it feels it's a new day.I don't know but this is a new day.

Tokyo COVID-19 measures

Tokyo, as far as I could see, no reduction of the traffic. When you get on a train at, say Ueno station or Shinjuku station, is hard to find a seat even during the off-peak hours. Ample passengers on those trains. As though they didn't care

Afghan collapse

I have no opinion on the matter. I guess Joe Biden's words best summarises the situation. 'If the Afghanistan's own armed forces do not want to fight to defend it, why should other countries?' I summarised his words but you get the gist.

Good morning

I trust you have a good morning. I had the weekend off. I should have mentioned it at the beginning. Sorry about that. Over the weekend, was there anything happening? It sounded not at least on the radio. The news cycle is still dominated b

A toad that blew up himself

when I was listening to the BBC, I couldn't help figuring whether it was Aesop's. A toad thought he could be as big as a cow or ox if not bigger. he inflated himself to the point he popped. The UK force and other NATO forces had no decisiv

Good morning, sunny here

Japan experienced the largest number of newly confirmed cases yesterday. It seems it is no longer contained in Tokyo. I suspect there are more cases transmitting within rural communities rather than people from Tokyo transmitting when visi

Good morning

Hello

Hello people of the note world, I am Rooster. I am really curious to find out whether there is audience on this platform if it was all in English. I understand languages aren't exactly a strong suit of the Japanese people. But I am curious.