郷里・金沢５ (My Hometwon Kanazawa 5)

　天神橋から、昔住んでいた家のあった通りまで行ってみたかった。しかし、正午に K.T. さんとホテルのフロント付近で会う約束だったので、それに遅れてはいけないと思い、戻ることにした。橋場町の金沢駅方面行きバス停の向いには、何度か訪れたことのある金沢蓄音機館が見える（写真）。K.T. さんとは、ホテルの和食堂で昼食をしながら、共通の友人 Y.A. さんの入院、その他について、2時間ほど話し合った。

From Tenjinbashi, I wanted to go to see the street I lived in my childhood. However, I had an appointment to meet K.T. (called Minny in my diaries of student days) at noon around the reception desk of the hotel I stayed, so that I had to return without visiting that street. From the bus stop of Hashibacho for the buses going in the direction of Kanazawa Station, we see, on the opposite side of the road, Kanazawa Phonograph Museum (the photo above), which I visited a few times before. K.T. and I talked over lunch at the Japanese restaurant of the hotel about the hospitalization of Y.A. (a mutual friend of ours) and other topics until about 2:00 p.m.

From tweets of yesterday (edited by rephrasing, adding words, etc.)

About History of Physics

Wrote email to A. Masaike to thank for the reprint of his paper, "Nuclear physics research at Kyoto University during World War II and the investigation of it by the occupation forces" (in Japanese). As for Thomas Smith mentioned in the paper, I found the following Web sites:

1) Irwin Scheiner, Andrew E. Barshay and Mary Elizabeth Berry, "IN MEMORIAM: Thomas C. Smith, Ford Professor of History, Emeritus, Berkeley 1916—2004," University of California Web site.
2) "Obituary: Thomas C. Smith, professor emeritus dies at 87" by Media Relations, UC Berkeley News (08 April 2004).
3) Andrew Barshay, Mary Elizabeth Berry and Irwin Scheiner, "Thomas C. Smith," From the "In Memorium" column of the May 2005 Peerspectives, Web site of American Historical Association.

[While working at the headquarters of the Sixth Army in Kyoto after World War II,] Smith was asked to be an interpreter for two officers from the Navy Department in Washington who had arrived to oversee the dismantling of the cyclotron at Kyoto University, and (however inadvertently) aided in the confiscation of Professor of Physics Arakatsu Bunsaku’s notes on the use of the cyclotron. This invasion of the scholarly activities of Arakatsu so disturbed Smith that his joy in remaining in Kyoto dimmed. Several months later he requested a return to the United States where he was quickly demobilized from Marine service.
"Returning from Japan with a determination to study Japanese history, Smith transferred his studies from UC Berkeley to Harvard University, which offered a Japanese history doctorate. Upon completion of his doctoral thesis in 1947, he accepted an appointment as an assistant professor at Stanford University where he remained until his appointment at Berkeley as Ford Professor of History in 1970." [Quoted from 1); a moving story also written in Masaike's paper.]

About Peace and Politics

[In reply to chiamai's words (via @italiansfrancia): "French soldiers 'deliberately exposed' to nuclear tests," BBC News (February 16, 2010) (to tttabata)] Thanks for your tweet to make me notice the news about the bad history of French nuclear weapons tests.

About Physics

"[S]ome of the particles are intimately linked in a way not seen before in proton collisions." [Retweet of physorg_com's words] Large Hadron Collider scientists spot potential new discovery: CERN," physorg.com (September 21, 2010). (Retweeted by fermin771009 and gtsouza)

About Science

[Retweet of bbcnews's words] "Winds could explain Biblical parting of the Red Sea," BBC News (September 21, 2010). —Computer simulations show how it could have occurred. (Retweeted by hey_leia and gtsouza)