Travelogue Japan-Update

Postings will resume again shortly.  Friends have flown in and have been showing them around.  Went to Osaka abd Hakone during a few days outside of Tokyo. 

Its been a bad few days for the Shinkansen.  There was a stabbing one day.  Another day, a train hit something which damaged its nose.  Thinking nothing of the conductor continued.  Later human body parts were found.  On Sat, Yohoku bullet trains were delayed due to earthquake.  This morning i woke up to news of an earthquake on Osaka that halted all trains for a while.  Makes me wonder if a swarm of quakes will lead to shaking in Tokyo while I am still here