Takao: fire flies

We're back in Takao, so far the weather has been very mild rather than hot and steamy as we'd expected

We visited a village close by to see the fire flies which were spectacular. The village name means Spirit Village after all defenders were massacred years ago. Their ghosts are still marching on occasion apparently! All we could hear was frogs. Through the narrow streets we walked along wound a stream on the banks of which the fire flies appeared.











Time flies too and we again accompanied our friend Tetsuro Tanaka on his picket duty now close to 25 years outside the OKI factory that sacked him on 29 June 1981