Thanks to King 5 and Lori Matsukawa, we were featured on TV. http://www.king5.com/news/Tsunami-Orphans-Tour-Seattle--164109846.html

My house was completely repainted by http://www.coffmangroupllc.com Great job !!!

8 children and 2 teachers from Tohoku arrived today. They are going to spend next two weeks in Seattle learning about living in America. Welcome to Seattle/Bellevue. I hope you will have memorable time here. PSPINC thanks all the companies and people helping us to get this event possible. Thank you.

This is the new color of our house ... the accent colors are not applied yet, but it does not look like 1965 built house any more.

This is the inside of the Bellevue City Hall ... WOW.

I saw this in Tokyo on my way from the airport to my hotel. Thousands of people are demonstrating in Tokyo to stop nuclear reactors from restarting. What's funny is that there are try few news coverage by media in Japan.

Kobe is a sister city of Seattle. Kobe is a beautiful city.

The office temperature is set to around 28C (81F) in Japan. I do not think it has anything to do with conserving energy. People here, specially female workers, complain about the room temperature being too low. I don't think it is productive to have the room temperature this high. At least last few years, people are not exp...

I just arrived at my home in Ashiya using Japan Rail. Firsr I took Shinkansen from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka, then I tool local trail from Shin Osaka to Ashiya. Very easy connection. It was very interesting when they apologize for the train being laster for 3 minutes.

Have a happy 4th of July. It's be safe and very careful when handing fireworks.