This week has been a real 'scorcher'hasn't it! In all my 11 years in Japan I can't remember it being so hot (and humid)in July. My wife told me yesterday that the mercury hit 39 degrees in Gunma! If the weather stays like this we're in for a very uncomfortable summer. She also told me that Hamamatsu was 20 degrees hotter than my hometown,back in the UK!(*_*)