
As I sit at my staff room desk, writing this blog and sipping
iced coffee, throngs of school children bottleneck at thresholds in their
eagerness to die in the summer heat and have their corpses carried away by suzumebachi
(Japanese hornets, or, literally translated, sparrow bee, because, you know,
their size). Really, though, they’re preparing for sports day.
View of Gotsu from the aquarium
As...