Potato and Kazuya Fukuda’s eldest daughter (Provided by Kazuya Fukuda)
On a rainy, cold morning more than a decade ago, Kazuya Fukuda was having breakfast with his wife when they heard a meow outside.
When he looked outside a window in the dining room, he saw a soaking wet kitten on a planter. Fukuda noticed a crow on a nearby utility pole as if it were stalking its prey.
But Fukuda had to go to work that day, on Nov. 13, 2009, still worried about the tiny feline s fate.
When he came home that night, he found that his wife had welcomed the kitten into their home.
Dec 31, 2020
Many of Japan’s weekly magazines typically publish double issues from the last week in December in order to give staff some time off. Such issues can easily be identified by logos, banners or trim on their covers that appear in gold, although three magazines Aera, Sunday Mainichi and Friday have abstained from the practice this year.
From looking at the magazines’ contents, you’d never have guessed what a crazy year 2020 has been. However, with many station kiosks closed due to the pandemic, I suspect that their newsstand sales and ad revenues almost certainly declined, and it’s to their credit that they’re putting up a brave front for readers. Things certainly can’t be easy.