the Japanese word for monster is kaiju

First off, Japanese keyboards are a bit different, so please bear with us if you come across any strange typos...

Japan is very awesome and very hot. We are told to relish it as next month the heat truly begins...In the evenings, Ammie often catches "zarigani" (crawdads)with Shohei-kun (the five-year-old son of our host family, the Horikawas), and seems to be quite adept at it! We are staying in Togane, which is a small town with a lot of farming and small stores. It is lovely, though what we wouldn't give for a cafe that served large cups of strong coffee!

July 1, we will move to a town outside of Tokyo called Kunitachi, and at the end of July, work begins for Trevor in Kukijoji--a super town that reminds us a little of Brooklyn.

Yesterday we went to Shinjuku, and were truly amazed! William-Gibson-world for sure!