I hear that Western country leaders have declared no-mask policy and gathered popularities. As I have wrote previously, Japan have no regulation for wearing face masks. We are only “recommended” or “requested” to put on masks indoors or wh…

Today is “Boy’s Festival Day” and we eat kashiwa-mochi, a rice cake wrapped in an oak leaf on this day. Kashiwa-mochi. The green one contains sweet azuki paste and yellow one contains sweet miso paste. These oak leaves can’t be eaten. In J…