OK, here are the promised photos. The two typhoons that our ship was dodging were Typhoon Khanun which headed from Okinawa to South Korea causing a port call at Busan South Korea to be cancelled and then that was followed with Typhoon 7 which headed toward South Central Japan forcing our ship to skip an additional stop in that area and head back to Yokohama from Kochi Japan. Pictured is my Northwestern Umbrella protecting me from some of the peripheral rains as they reached Yokohama at the beginning of this week.
(In the distance you can see a portion of our ship, the Diamond Princess which was moored under quarantine at this same location in February of 2020. In conjunction with the Sakura season we were earlier this year on its first returned to Japan public voyage since that time. This month's sailing was to take advantage of the ship's scheduled Summer Festivals Tour. Despite the typhoons we were still able to be present for the festivals in Akita, Aoyama, and Kochi Japan.)
And for good measure here are some of the photos I captured at the festivals in Japan. First are of the Kanto (Pole lantern) Festival in Akita, Japan:
Note, in keeping this Northwestern related, below pictured is one of lantern holding bamboo poles adorned with purple:
Before the candles In each lantern are lit for the evening parade, competitions are held to measure the mastering of skills in the balancing of the over 100 pound lantern floats on the back, shoulder and even head.
The night procession with candles lit:
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