Yuki

Japan is the only country that has been on the receiving end of these weapons.

I want to say something profound and I find I only have something small: my grandmother is 88 and she watched the news about Büchel with no expression at all, and then she got up and made tea, and I have never seen her look older.

In Japan we have the same treaty they had. The same bases. The same assumption.

Nobody at my company mentioned it today. Everybody at my company read about it today. That is how it works here.

The word going round quietly is 自主防衛 — independent defence. It has not been a serious word in my lifetime. It was serious at lunch.