We don't have a rainy season in Hokkaido, but .......

In Japan, we almost always talk about the weather by way of greeting in such  ways as "It's fine today, isn't it?" or "It's a nasty day, isn't it?" "How long will it continue to rain?" etc. That's because, in Japan, the weather is so changeable, and the topic of the weather is always harmless. Now it is a rainy season called "nyu bai" or "tsuyu". However, meteorogically speaking, Hokkaido has no rainy season, but in this time of every year, we have almost as much rain as in other parts of Japan. Today was a rainy day, and the forecast says it will rain tomorrow, too. For the crops in the fields, this rain will be good, I hope.

My personal history after the war   ⑩
I arrived at Iwamizawa at last. I don't remember the exact time, but, maybe, it took about 20 hours. It was a long trip. My mother was waiting at the ticket wicket and smiled at me, feeling releaved. There were not so many people around, but I felt a little ashamed to see her wearing shabby clothes. When she lived in Tokyo, she was a career woman who worked for the Ministry of Telecommunication. In her old photo album, she always dressed neatly.  But in Miyagi, she had to work on a farm, which she had no experience of such physical labor at all. She always wore shabby ragged clothes. I still remember feeling sorry for her when I saw her scolded by my father because she couldn't do some farm work well.