This is the thing that sicked me out the most today. You see, they have so many bugs in Japan it's not even funny. For those of you interested in language, the word for "bug" in Japanese is "mushi." When the common grasshopper mutated, it became what they call the in this country the "piyon-piyon mushi," a kind of big-bodied, hairy eye-browed bug made for jumping over your head in a single bound.

Upon leaving my office today and slipping on my shoes, I noticed that there was a bit of a bump in the toe of my shoe. At first I just thought it was my sock bunching up at the end, but then it struck me that something might be down there. I took of my shoe in a hurry and pounded the heal down on the ground. Sure enough, the carcas of a huuuuuge piyon-piyon came tumbling out. Oh, it was so nasty ... an oshy gooshy squishy mushi!