12/10/2001

After nine o'clock in evening, I took a Yurikamome train (no crew train) from the JR Shimbashi station to the Odaiba Beach Park station. And I walked down for about five minutes and saw a Odaiba Memorial Tree beautifully illuminated with the Rainbow Bridge in the back. The tree is about twenty meters high. It was a magnificent view. Although it had strong north wind, not a few spectators were coming late in evening by train or their own vehicles (it was scheduled to be lit up until January 3rd.)

In fact, I left my home to go down to the front approach to Meiji Shrine to see the illumination along the street. But there were no such a fantagic illumination on street. Small national flags and lanterns were hanging along the dividing center belt of street modestly celebrating the birth of princess. Until a few years ago, the street was illuminated splendidly. But nowdays, the illumination was gone due to the inevitable heavy congestion on the street. So I changed my way to Odaiba where I could surely see a beautifully illuminated tree. I went to the Odaiba Beach Park via JR Shimbashi. From there I walked down a long wooden deck a little while and finally I got to the tree. On my way there, I walked through good looking wear shops, cafes or game centers. I was surprised to see such a big shopping mall was built here.

On my way back, I saw a big beautifully illuminated wheel built at Aomi,

This morning at the hospital, Dr. Namiko Sumi consulted me and said she would adjust the setting of Microton a bit following the CT test results which was done on December 3. The radiation area would be narrowed from tomorrow. That is to back to the normal standard procedure (up to now, radiation area was enlarged a bit than standard.) When I told her that my weight increased by one kg in the past one month. She asked me to control my weight so that the present radiation therapy would result in success. As she tried hard to get good results, she needed a cooperation from me, she said.

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