I feel like this post should start out with a disclaimer of sorts. Autumn, Winter and Spring are all beautiful seasons here in Japan. This country has much natural beauty to offer, as I hope my previous posts have conveyed.
With that out of the way, to be honest, I feel like I'm never going to see the sun again. June and July comprise Japan's rainy season. It is almost at an end, yet the hot season is nothing to look forward to. That is an understatement. The hot season is wretchedly intolerable. It can make even the most macho of businessmen carry paper fans and parasols.
The weather around here lately has been enough to make one blogger wonder why people even live on this volcanic archipelago anyway. Tokyo itself is build upon the precise intersection of three different tectonic plates. (Then she is reminded that some citizens did try to set up shop in China and Korea last century, but this didn't work out so well...)
Lately, I fluctuate between feeling as if I live in an urban rain-forest, a sauna or perhaps a nuclear test site. 
Rainy season doesn't really pose torrential threats or anything, it just drizzles every day. It rained heavily last weekend because of the Typhoon that bypassed the capital and went out to sea (to make room for the earthquake!). But that was a freakishly early storm for the season. The rains we experience now are usually gray and dull. They are terrifically depressing. 
Such weather is not as violent or exciting as the windy storms which will pass through during typhoon season this coming Fall. I far prefer the Autumn. The typhoons aren't all that bad anyway. They bring in fresh air from the ocean and take all the crappy polluted air out of the city with them.
I would take violence over depression any day.
Yes, this is why I have so many issues.
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