I was awakened at about twelve thirty last night because the whole room was moving around. As I became conscious enough to understand that it was an earthquake, I heard a blast of air hit the side of the building, the sound bringing me completely awake. I assume that the blast was cause by a wave of air displaced by the moving ground.
We had no damage but north of here there apparently was quite a bit. There were over half a hundred people injured, must from broken glass.
We have had a string of severe quakes. As Jerry Lee Lewis sang back in 1957, "We ain't fakin'. Whole lot of shakin' goin' on."
About Me
- Charles
- Nakagawa-machi, Chikush-gun, Fukuoka-ken, Japan
- I have lived in Japan since 1976 and now consider it to be my permanent home. I have a very varied background having studied engineering, Japanese and East Asian studies, and education at the university level. I spent ten years in the Army where my job involved Area Studies, mostly in East Asia. When I started to teach in Japan, it was at a post high school level and, after I completed a PhD in education, I moved to a university where I become a full professor. After retiring, I taught part-time but am now completely retired and spend my enjoying myself. I am reasonably fluent in Japanese and at present all of my friends are elderly Japanese.
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