Leaving behind...

One thing I must leave behind leaving my division is the coverage of typhoons attacking our nation.

One of the strongest typhoons in years is attacking the southwest!

when the satellite picture is "beautiful", it's a bad sign... the typhoon has a firm eye... that's when the menace is pulling itself together manufacturing the threatning strong winds from its center!

At night, I went out to have a drink with the members from the air pollution lawsuit. They held a small and casual farewell party for me near Korakuen. Well... I will be associating with them till I die, so in fact it's not a farewell party!

P.S.
Last night, we were drinking till 4AM and I was really sleepy! I don't even remember what I did the last hour except slumbering at a karaoke box without singing!

Fighting with the sandman, I covered the ex-Aum leading member's death penalty sentence given out at the High Court. The last one at the appellate court level concerning the Aum crimes...

(short article from Kyodo)
◆Death penalty on AUM's Nakagawa upheld at high court
TOKYO, July 13 KYODO
The Tokyo High Court upheld Friday a lower court's death sentence against former senior AUM Shinrikyo member Tomomasa Nakagawa who was convicted of his involvement in the killings of 25 people in various criminal cases from 1989 to 1995, including the cult's sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway and in Nagano Prefecture.
Presiding Judge Ritsuro Uemura turned down an appeal from Nakagawa, 44, a former physician, against the death sentence given in October 2003 at the Tokyo District Court.