Our website seems to change with the seasons, and now that we are over the winter doldroms and the Japanese cherry trees are displaying their beautiful spring blossoms, we are once again publishing the latest news from the land of the rising sun. Our new photos are mostly winter scenes, candids from the holidays and our visit to the U.S. in late December. We hope you enjoy them (some of you may even find your own smiling faces on the screen), and we wish you well until next time (when the seasons change once more)!