Japan Right Now

Japan runs nine hours ahead of London and thirteen ahead of New York, which is the point of the live webcams in Japan: a European breakfast is a Tokyo evening, the hour the scramble crossings fill and the neon comes on, and an American evening is Japan's next morning, with commuter trains and the first flights sliding into the bay airports. The country keeps Japan Standard Time all year, no daylight saving, so the offset never moves. The rhythm of the year is worth knowing before you look. Cherry blossom opens in Tokyo in the last week of March and moves north for a month; the rainy season sets in from early June to mid-July; typhoons arrive between August and October; the maples turn in November; and Hokkaido lies under snow from December to March. Golden Week, at the turn of May, empties the offices and fills the streets.

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