Donna Weeks
@psephy
Academic-ish, Aust-Japan: politics, society, community; music, books, many books, photography, sports-ish; {Suomi} 政治学、政治思想、日豪関係、9条の会、音楽、写真、波乗り、より良い社会を目指す。#tokyolyf and random commentary. Either in Brisbane/Meanjin or Tokyo 東京&茅ヶ崎 Psephy—a psephologist. 😊
今日､大船にある小さな素敵な本屋さんを訪れ、買いたかった本ありすぎて、とりあえず気に入った本を買ってきました。 @porvenir-bookstore.bsky.social さん、長い間貴重な本を売り続いて､活躍してありがとうございました。感謝します。 #戦争反対 #9条守れ #NOWAR
They only eat a few of the couple of hundred species. I occasionally get them in the trees in my backyard, the leaves are pretty straight. 😊🐨
Some were also started apparently to help feed the koalas that started arriving in the 1980s as part of diplomatic exchanges. I came across these ones in YumenoShima Park near Tokyo Bay on one of my walks.
Coinciding with your Japan theme, (though not today’s date), picked this up at my local record shop last week…
Today, a walk around the island, coming to terms with the life and hardships of Japanese labourers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. 今日の主な目的は木曜島にある日本人のお墓を参ります。明治時代から昭和の初期までその労働者の苦労を少し理解できるようになりました。その他の風景も観ました。
Blue moon month: 2 and 31 May 2026. A view or two over Brisbane. 5月に「ブルームーン」(1ヶ月に2回の満月)現れた。ブリスベンの夜空。 左、5月2日､ 右､5月31日
Concert incoming… I’m a bit busy with necessary practice for one particular, rather famous piece where the bass clarinet soars above the orchestra. It’s both challenging and slightly anxiety-inducing. Usually the bass cl just sits in the background, growling in the engine room. 🎶
Following the seasons in the quadrangle. The view below my office window through the seasons, and two especially interesting snowy days. History. There now stands a building where the seasons once moved. 数年前、当時の研究室の窓から見た四季の流れ…春夏秋冬、そして雪の日…
Visitor at my outdoor ‘office’. Lovely day to be working outside, but there are distractions.
After starting three and a half years ago as a little project to get out and about more and take breaks from work, I’ve finally completed the 277km network of walks on the outskirts of Tokyo, the ‘Musashino no Michi’. It’s been quite the outer suburban adventure by an outer suburban type.🤭 武蔵野の路、完歩❗️
Very excellent rest day includes books, beach and dinner. 久しぶり茅ヶ崎に、いい気分でいい一日でした。
I am pleased to report the bell was not required today. There was, however, a rather spectacular sakura in almost full bloom. It was attracting a lot of attention from the locals.
Lots of Jon Kudelka’s cartoons made it to the fridge door, but this one took pride of place on my office doors, many and various, as I made my way as a budding political philosopher. Vale.
Counting is very different in Japan compared with Australia. So 90 minutes into the formal counting (compared with the exit poll forecasts at 8:00pm, the LDP has 247 seats, the Chudo alliance just 28.