Faithfull Laser Therapyreaders, here we are at the endof September, 2017, and it’smy pleasure and honour towelcome you to the thirdissue of the twenty-sixth volume of the journal. Here inJapan we should now beapproaching what theEnglish poet John Keatscalled the “Season of mistsand mellow fruitfulness”, in other words, autumn orfall, whichever term you prefer. However for us inJapan the weather has been a little topsy-turvy thisyear. In my previous Editorial for issue 26:2 I left youlooking forward to our rainy season, to be followed bythe stifling and muggy heat of summer which wecounter with the cooling breezes wafted by our wonderful folding fans, editorialized in the previous issue.Actually, it hasn’t quite worked out like that. The rainyseason was less rainy than was hoped, and summer,which started out briefly very hot and sunny, quicklydeteriorated to being very wet and cloudy, but sadly,still hot and humid. In fact, our normal bounty of summer fruit and vegetables this year is very few and farbetween because there hasn’t been enough sunshine,not enough of my favorite “light and life”, so thatquantities and quality have dropped, and of courseprices have concomitantly gone up. This was exacerbated by Typhoon Noru in July which dumped morerain in one day over the landmass of southern Japanthan is usually seen in a year. Of course Japan is notalone. At the end of August the state of Texas wasinundated and lashed by the winds of HurricaneHarvey, recognized as one of the 5 most devastatingstorms to affect the USA in the past 120 years. I wouldlike to be able to say with US President Donald Trumpthat global warming doesn’t exist, but I don’t think Ican honestly agree: at least in Japan, our usual “mellow fruitfulness” of autumn is likely to be a little fruitless this year.
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