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	Osaka Gaidai (University), an hour's train and bus ride from central Osaka - where you can become semi-literate in Japanese in a few months. [Chapter 2]
	Campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokodai), in O-okayama, Meguro-ku. The tower building (toward the top, a little to the right of centre) dates from before the Pacific War. Apparently, the US bombers used it as a guiding landmark during bombing raids on inner Tokyo in 1944-45. My building was the tall one right in the centre of the photo. [Chapter 2]
	Roofs of O-okayama, after a snowfall. (Taken from the top floor of my building in Tokyo Institute of Technology. [Chapter 2]
	Moguls at twilight, patterns in the snow. Happo-one, Nagano Prefecture.
	Apartment block near our flat in Kansai, taken after the 1995 Hanshin Quake. The portion shown in the left-hand side withstood the quake, but elsewhere, the columns in the ground floor - which was a car park - collapsed. It took about two years before the building was torn down. (We were not in the area when the quake occurred.)
	View from rear balcony of our flat (between Osaka and Kobe). [Chapters 9, 12]
	River near the flat. The water was quite clean with carp and even a snake or two. [Chapters 9, 12]

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