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William A concern about the new semiconductor plants (a water-intensive industry) slated to open in Kikuchi is water source. Concern is that the plants would deplete Kumamoto City's aquifers. Kumanichi reports on a plan floated to transfer water from Kikuchi:

Kirk here with more about COVID-19. The image shows that Kumamoto hit a new record of 6,615 new cases yesterday. This image comes from the following Japanese article:

Atsuko here with 屋台村 Yataimura report.

Kirk here with something for those of you who don't happened to be regular readers of the Taiwan News:

Kirk here. A few weeks ago I posted about Dr. Ichiro Iimura of the Prefectural University of Kumamoto:

Happy New Year, 2023.Atsuko here.

William It's said that half the joy of a journey is the journey itself - particularly apt if one goes by train.

Kirk here with some end-of-year thoughts:

Kirk here sharing a post from Huy Tran about where to get good pizza. Thanks Huy! Please add nominations for other good pizza places in a comment to this post. :)

Kirk here with the . . . drum role, please . . . number 1 post of the year in terms of "reach" (people who saw it). It came from William and was about, you guessed it, Russia's war against Ukraine. This post got 51 shares and 6,827 views -- quote a lot for a little page like ours.

Kirk here with bad news about COVID-19. In short, the numbers are up and Kumamoto Prefecture has raised its alert level to three. The screenshots are from

Atsuko here with information about holiday duty doctor during the year-end and New year holidays. Keep warm and enjoy holidays(๑˃ᴗ˂)و♡

Kumamoto-i's self-appointed chief escape room correspondent Fiona here, with an end of year treasure hunt. After the Christmas Quest raised over 15,000 yen for Team Tonakai, Tom Taniguchi has set one final puzzle for Kumamoto residents. Good luck!

Kirk here with number 2 in our retrospective countdown. This one got 3,314 views.

Kirk here with number 3 in my little end-of-year countdown. This post from William about the history of Tsuruya Department Store got 3,164 views:

Kirk here reporting that 2022 has not been a good year for Mr. IDE Nobuo. Just a few years ago (2019) he was made head of the Kumamoto Prefectural Assembly:

Kirk here with number 4 in our countdown to 2023. This was posted by Hari and got 3,090 views. Thanks Hari!

William Sometimes Kumamon appears in Santa gear; sometimes not. Best get your camera ready.

Merry Christmas! Atsuko here.

Kirk here with post number 5 in terms of "reach" (number of views) this year. Actually, I just deleted it by mistake so I'm posting this without an image. The original image was a map of evacuation notices but I don't want to disturb anyone on Christmas with such an image. By the way, though I accidentally erased the post, I have a record of the text so I'll append that to the end of this post.