William Our friend Luz de Leon is the leader of the tiny Mexican community in Kumamoto. She has organized a display for el Dia de los Muertos at the International Center and would like to remind readers that it will run until November 2. Please do not mistake this very important festival with Halloween, a European, Americanized mess. El Dia de los Muertos is pre-Columbian and of great importance to the people of Mexico and other Hispanic cultures, perhaps most closely equated to the Japanese Obon holiday. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_de_Muertos