The temperature in Kumagaya,Saitama,39.8 degrees,in Nemuro,8.0 degrees.

The topic of  weather again. Today's highest temperature in Kumagaya,Saitama prefecture, was 39.8 degrees,while in Nemuro,Hokkaido, it was only 8.3 degrees. The difference of temperatures between these two places was more than 30 degrees! Japan is a small country but the Japanese archipelago lies long from north to south. That's why the climate varies greatly from place to place. The rain here stopped in the morning, and I walked, as usual, as far as Kawazoe cho.

My personal history after the war   ⑪
I walked out of the station building to the square in front. It was not paved, and there were bumps and puddles after recent rain. Taxis and busses were running splashing up dirty water. I saw a dog wandering around between wooden buildings. The dog looked very dingy because it seemed to get dirty with soot and dust from the smoke of the locomotives burning coal. A small-sized horse was plodding along drawing a wagon full of coal. Spallows were chirping in the trees along the road, and they also looked as dirty as the dog.