Snow

No, none in Tokyo today, though it's been a "hot" (hah) subject during the last couple of weeks due to the occasional freak precipitation event providing a couple of centimetres of wet, melty snow which vanished within a few hours of settling. However, I was browsing through this book in Kinokuniya earlier - it's a collection of photographs of postwar Japan taken by a photographer attached to GHQ (the US occupying authority), and one page showed pictures of winter in Tokyo a couple of years after the war. I can't reproduce them here, but back then they evidently had real snow in impressive amounts - maybe not quite as much as places like Niigata, but deep enough to have to dig paths through (rather than be scraped aside with little plastic shovels).

No photo today, but I have fixed another small problem with the comment posting function which - in rare cases - caused the comment to disappear after submission without any kind of error message. My apologies if anyone has experienced this: it was my anti-comment spam system being a little too enthusiastic.