I was in Kyoto on New Years Day with friends visiting a few Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples and not so much praying and wishing for good fortune as gobling up delicious Japanese street food.

As a result, I missed the quake experience in Tokyo, which was apparently pretty mild.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Quake+rocks+Tokyo+region+Year/5933751/story.html

I’m sure I’ll catch the next one. Or the one after that.