Typhoon Hinnamnor, the 11th typhoon this year, heads towards Okinawa with a band of low pressure stretching as far as Tohoku and Aomori in the north of Japan bringing the promise of heavy rain and possible flooding to the region. Meanwhile, we briefly look at the writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) whose name lends the Akutagawa Prize its name and whose tomb is now found alongside his two sons at Jigan-ji Temple, a small residential cemetery in Sugamo, Tokyo.