Alistair Munro
@alistair-munro
Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.
If you are looking particulate matter, specifically PM2.5 (which is the issue right now, right?), I don't think this is true. If you use a composite AQI index, then the graphic is heavily influenced by the high levels of ozone that used to be common in summer months.
Getting excited about Shinjuku-ku beach 2026, now that the road is closed and sun loungers have been delivered.
Not one person in that crowd had to drop their litter rather than take it home.
Here's a more recent map (2008): the most economically vulnerable are often the most exposed to flooding. Japan built 10metre+ flood walls at US$30m per km. They are ugly, but for any reasonable cost-benefit analysis there is no economic case for abandoning coastal communities in Lincolnshire.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Salty snack giant #Calbee should win every marketing award going for 2026.
Sakamoto-flavoured gingerbread from Stoke Bakery, Coventry. Just keep him away from Foxes. 坂元ジンジャーブレッド @digitalsoccer.bsky.social @soccerkingjp.bsky.social @skybluestalk.bsky.social #コヴェントリー
Speaking as the subject of a country that was invaded and carved up in 1066 as a just war with papal blessing, I'm not wholly buying Bishop Massa's comments.
An April Sunday is the moment to buy a colander-scoop of fish from the unmanned メダカ屋 結之 store near Arakawaoka station, pop a 1,000 yen note into the honesty box and bring them home.
What's noticeable is the variation across local authority: * highest are over 2x the rate of the lowest * with large variation even within similar categories * part of the variation is driven by PIP variations * but lots of variation in granting Blue Badges held subject to further assessment
Well, I knew Japan had coal mines but I still hadn’t expected the Karst landscapes of Yamaguchi ken, let alone the caves of Akiyoshido.
Reminds of when I wandered into this place and asked for a French polish.
Technically, this appears to be only tested for morning parties.