In college, I double-majored in economics and Asian studies, so I was a bit busy. In my senior year, the dean notified me that if I didn’t take a science class, I couldn’t graduate, so I enrolled in geology. As life has it, turns out to be a life-long hobby. Japan is a paradise for geologists. Look around you and ask: Why are these hills bent? Where do these rocks come from? (3 Types of Rock: Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic). There are huge boulders in places where they shouldn’t be - they must have been spit out of the volcano long ago as volcanic ejecta. Just look around you and notice. Kumamoto is a paradise for geologists. - William