Izu is already a spring landscape.  The early blooming Kawazu cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and rape blossoms are spreading in the countryside.  There are some places where it is hard to clear snow due to heavy snow, other places which has already reached spring.  Thinking about this, it seems that Japan is also wide. It is a characteristic of Japan that is long from north to south and surrounded by the sea.  The scenery of the four seasons is rich in variety and blessed with abundant ingredients, and it is inevitable that the Japanese born and raised there are rich in emotion. While, natural disasters such as the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake are not odd.  Catastrophes that kill thousands and tens of thousands of people at once continue to occur.  Ironically, this also purifies the Japanese mind.

伊豆はもう春の景色です。早咲きの河津桜は見頃を迎え、菜の花が田園に広がっています。大雪で雪掻きが大変という所があるかと思えば、こうしてもう春を迎えている所もある日本は意外に広いんだと胸を張りたい気分です。南北に長く、周りを海に囲まれた日本ならではの特徴です。四季折々の景色は変化に富み、豊かな食材にも恵まれ、そこで生まれ育った日本人が情緒豊かなのも必然です。そうかと思えば、阪神淡路大震災のような自然災害も半端ではありません。一度に何千人、何万人の命を落とす大災害も起こり続いています。皮肉なことにこれもまた日本人の心を浄化します。