Since we have been talking about Minamata disease a bit in class, I thought I'd share a recent article I came across about Mercury levels in Taiji, Japan.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37050396/ns/health-more_health_news/

If everyone wants to go on the trip to the river, I won't be able to go. I'm trying to save my money and that trip would just be too expensive for me. I would love to go to Minamata, as I've heard from sempai that it's a really fun place to go, and I think it would be a very unique opportunity to study Minamata disease and learn some history directly from the people that lived it. Amakusa is my second choice, but I can't really think of anything interesting there besides the beach and marine animal exhibits.

Other than that, I'd just like to write about things I want to do before I leave Japan. I don't want to return to America with regrets about opportunities that I missed. Last Fall I heard about a restaurant near the edge of town where you could see and feed wild tanuki. Does anyone know where it is? I REALLY want to go there! Any other fun ideas of things I should see or do in Kumamoto before I leave in 2 months?