Steve McCarty 🇯🇵<p>I've just retired from 40 years in Japanese higher education. I'm happy, however, because I'm completely healthy. I just had a catheter operation that fixed the irregular heartbeat that was concerning for several months.</p><p>I still belong to the EU-Asia digital partnerships grant project, and a long presentation on Japan to students from California is scheduled for May. </p><p>I'm already back to outdoor activities, as you can see with these photos of sakura cherry blossoms in the castle ruins park near our house.</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retirement</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Osaka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Osaka</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/heart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heart</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/catheter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catheter</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/heartbeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heartbeat</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/outdoors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outdoors</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/cherry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cherry</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/blossoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blossoms</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/sightseeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sightseeing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/park" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>park</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/photos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photos</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a></p>