My friend Steve Yao (Hamilton College) gave his talk on Asian American literature at Yoshiaki Koshikawa's Meiji seminar today. This is the first time for Steve to come to Japan. With Kyoko Omori, Shuzo Saito, and Keita Hatooka, it was a very enjoyable afternoon of serious "causerie litteraire."
Then when we were done for the class, we had an announcement. Meiji University would be closed for a week to prevent the spread of measles! How very strange, indeed. Most of the major universities in Tokyo are now hit by this desease. Biological terrorism of a sutble kind? I don't know.
