The National Weather Station announced that the rainy season was over at Tokyo and Kanto area. A heat wave attacked the area as soon as the rains ended. Although I have not used room cooling machines up to yesterday, I was obliged to switch on them for about three hours in the last night. But in the afternoon, we were relieved with fairly strong breeze. Meanwhile, in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu island they had heavy showers, over 100 millimeter in concipitation. The mayor of Isahaya city recommended all people to evacuate from their homes to camps on hill.
The lunch-on meeting with my friends was held at a Japanese restaurant. Although kabayaki(baked eel with soy source) was recommended, I took a sashimi teishoku(a set menu of raw fish) because I took heavy foods repeatedly these days.
They told me about those who suffered from serious ill and also friends who faded away. About the suicide of Mr. Jun Eto, a famous culture columnist, who killed himself yesterday, a friend criticized that he had not imagined late Eto was not strong in mind. I thought that the people should be given the freedom of life as well as freedom of death.
An All Nippon Airway (ＡＮＡ) plane bound for Hokkaido carrying more than 500 passengers and crews was hi-jacked this morning. The captain was killed with a big knife by a hijacker. Why could he carry a knife into cabin through the strict luggage inspection at Haneda Airport, It was reported that the hijacker pointed out the airport authority about defects of luggage control system by letters a few time. But they never took visible actions for the revise. The authority who did not try to eliminate the bugs of the system must be censured as misjudgements or as negligence.
At airports in U.S.A., every people at or around check-in counters is well trained and disciplined for executing federal safety regulations. When they receive luggage from passengers, they ask you whether you did packing yourself or whether you have something other than yours. They might be asking the same questions repeatedly more than hundreds times a day. They ask you so fast that it is very difficult to catch their questions for non English speaking people like Japanese.
The inspections on carrying luggages are sometimes eased and the other times severed. When they have some information about terrorists activities, the inspections become very strict. As I am carrying around a note PC, I was always asked by guards to switch on it in front of them until last year. They watched whether pictures showed up on its screen. My broken leg is connected with titan plate and screws. Until last year whenever I walked through the inspection gate, it warned with noise of buzzer. Immediately after that a guardsman held my body and checked around until he recognized that I had none of arms. But from late last year, the gate never buzzed. It is said that in order to protect female persons, they lifted up the height of X-ray machine. At the last trip, they never allowed me to pass the inspection until they picked up my digital camera and found that it was nothing but a camera. If their inspections are severe, that means they guarantee us safer trips. I have never complained the severe inspections.