Lovely photos Quaggy, thank you for sharing. I don't know now, when I'll get to Japan. I had planned on a visit sometime this year since I should take advantage of my brother being there. I don't know what his plans are now. There's no point in keeping himself unnecessarily in harms way, and he's back in Hong Kong for now.

It is different when you know people in the country, it can't help but be. Had circumstances been slightly different, I might have lost my brother. Had the big one been the earthquake on Wednesday, and not the one Friday, my mother would have been there too.