7 Apr 2012

Hanami in Shinkoiwa

Apr 7, 2012 2:53pm
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6 Apr 2012

Late afternoon cherry blossoms in bloom

Apr 6, 2012 7:38pm

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29 Jan 2012

Last year's 3/11 earthquake - video that very closely shows what it was like for me

Jan 29, 2012 6:57pm
This YouTube video from 3/11/2011 at 2:46 pm is silent, but interesting.
It is taken in a 5th floor office in Koto-ku, which is right next to the ward I live in, less than 2 mi from my house. So the degree of shaking and the amount of things falling over is almost exactly the same as what I experienced here in Shinkoiwa.

Note how it builds up over the 2 minutes of the video.

doug

24 Jan 2012

Snowy rooftops this morning

Jan 24, 2012 8:01am
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23 Jan 2012

First real snow of the season ๆ–ฐๅฐๅฒฉใฎๅคง้›ช

Jan 23, 2012 11:01pm

This is the view from my 3rd floor veranda just before.

doug

20 Jan 2012

It's snowing! ้›ชใŒ้™ใฃใฆใ„ใ‚‹๏ผ

Jan 20, 2012 1:47pm
It's snowing here in Shinkoiwa. Not much. Probably won't stick. But it's the first snow of the year.

doug

17 Jan 2012

Today's sunset view from my house

Jan 17, 2012 4:37pm
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3 Jan 2012

ๅˆ่ฉฃ First shrine visit of the year

Jan 3, 2012 3:02am
Just a small neighborhood shrine.

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11 Dec 2011

Lunar eclipse in Shinkoiwa on Dec 10, 2011

Dec 11, 2011 12:12am

Ken Burns effects and Claire de Lune can help even the worst photographs. :)

These images of the lunar eclipse tonight were taken from my 3rd floor veranda, here in Shinkoiwa, Katsushika, Tokyo.

doug

14 May 2011

Here in Shinkoiwa it's been quite "quaky" all night and this morning

May 14, 2011 10:16am
All night I kept on getting woken up by short but very "jerky" small earthquakes.

I checked http://tenki.jp/earthquake/ and since midnight (it's currently 10:00 am Saturday) there have been 17 earthquakes. Most have been small, like in the magnitude 2.6 ~ 4 range. There have been 4 quakes greater than magnitude 4.0: 4.5, 4.8, 4.3 and one at 8:35 that was magnitude 6.2. That was the most obvious one, and shook my computer monitor, etc. (See map showing the range of that one).

I wonder if most people in Tokyo can feel these smaller ones like I do. My house is in Shinkoiwa, which is on the far eastern side of Tokyo, near Chiba prefecture.
doug

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I'm an American and permanent resident of Japan living in Tokyo. I also have a residence in St. Louis, and family in Boston.

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