August 15, 2023 : Typhoon Lan Crosses the Main Island of Japan
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
Typhoon Lan hit Kyoto today.
I made some preparations yesterday, including stocking up on food, and stayed in my room all day today.
She was supposed to come today, but because of the typhoon, it was postponed until tomorrow.
I had thought she was coming today until I got a message from her, and that was the first time I realized the typhoon was coming.
Speaking of typhoons, when I was in junior high and high school, I hoped that a typhoon would cancel school.
I was very disappointed when typhoons didn't cancel school.
This is the only memory I have of typhoons so far, probably because I lived in an area where a typhoon was not so dangerous; earthquakes are much scarier to me than typhoons.
But in some countries and regions, typhoons are scarier than earthquakes.
A friend from the Philippines once told me that people there are more afraid of typhoons than earthquakes.
In the Philippines, most earthquakes occur in unpopulated areas, but when it comes to typhoons, it is no ordinary event, she said.
By the way, today is the day the war ended, the day the fighting between Japanese and Allied forces ended.
I once saw a documentary on television about the Battle of Okinawa, and it showed the communication record of the U.S. troops who wanted to protect the residents they found.
The documents show that people can protect and help each other in a situation as devastating as the Battle of Okinawa, but why do people kill each other with guns in war?
It is a mystery how the public mind is so inclined to go to war.
Also, today I added a title case conversion function to Lee22.Net's
"CONVERT CHARACTERS".
I have written all article titles in uppercase because I thought it would be easier to read, since all my site articles are listed vertically,
but now that I've made it, I think I'll use this to convert the article titles to Title Case.
(Normal text)
August 15, 2023 : Typhoon Lan crosses the main island of Japan
(Title Case)
August 15, 2023 : Typhoon Lan Crosses the Main Island of Japan
(UPPERCASE) AUGUST 15, 2023 : TYPHOON LAN CROSSES THE MAIN ISLAND OF JAPAN
Title Case is used in article titles in English-language journals.