Former NY Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu found dead in LA.

  It was sunny. Ayako went to the hospital by bicycle in the morning while I went for a walk. Leo, our cat seems to be lonely without his brother who died the other day.
 In Niigata and Fukushima prefectures, it is raining heavily, and the rivers are flooding, and many people are evacuating, the TV news reporting. So, I called my sister Sumiko in Fukushima. She said it was not raining in the eastern part of the prefecture, so they were safe. Sumiko only talked happily about one of her granddaughters who had just returned from the school trip in Hokkaido. She said her granddaughter was very happy to travel to Hokkaido, and that she wanted to travel to Hokkaido again. So I said, "Come to Hokkaido with her."

On Wednesday, local time, former NY Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu found dead in his house in a wealthy Los Angels suburb.  He seems to have committed a suicide. The reason is unknown. He played in the Major League from 1997-2002. He played for the Yankees in the seasons 1997 and 1999, and in 1998, he won 13 games, and lost 9 games, and the team won the World Series and became the champions.