Looking forward to an evening out with new colleagues - and I hope friends - at the very traditional 'Takeshigero' eatery in Kyoto.

Packing the office into boxes for the move - no more work 'til next week :(

Just three weeks to go until the move to Kyoto; teaching materials coming together slowly but surely.

Directionality repurposed, printed and posted. Enjoying reading Ingrid Piller's critical intro to 'intercultural communication'.

Directionality paper - FAIL! I can sense a spot of re-purposing coming on...

Directionality paper submitted - now pressing on with next April's courses!

Back to work on "Visual Directionality: Television news in Japan and the UK": target journal identified, rewriting proceeding apace.

'Watershed' tv digitalisation paper more or less rewritten, now has to be pruned viciously to get in under 10000wds....

Finally, some time to work on rewriting my TV industry outlook paper. Looks like it needs significant attention.

Every time I find myself having to write about satellite broadcasting in Japan I start to feel ill...

Positive feedback from reviewers on my survey of/outlook for Japan's terrestrial broadcasting industry post-digitalisation - looking forward to incoporating their ideas/comments and getting it published.

The latest MIC Newsletter reviews the change to digital, well, actually it says - look at us aren't we brilliant, our plan worker perfectly, there were absolutely NO hitches or problems… and by the way PLEASE BUY OUR TV TECHNOLOGY!!! (Read it here: http://peg.gd/1F5)

More confirmation of expected increase in fly-tipping of CRT TVs as side-effect of digitalisation. (http://www.asahi.com/digital/av/TKY201107230172.html)

Struggling to unpick strands of theory and thought around directionality and visual semiotics. Not sure if it's me or it that's most confused!

Need more data for Directionality paper: going to go back and recode some soundbites. Am intrigued as to what will turn up...

Idiot minister inadvertently reveals nature of press-politician relations in Japan (see http://bit.ly/lfXliG). His closing comments (in front of a roomful of press) are "Oh my last remark is off the record, understand? Everyone. Understand? If any of you dare write it, that will be end of your company."

Less than a month to go until analog broadcasting disappears throughout most of Japan, still a third of a million households (actually probably more) cannot receive the replacement digital service. (http://www.asahi.com/business/update/0629/TKY201106290440.html)

Seems the predicted rise in fly-tipping of analog tv sets before the digital switchover has started to happen. (www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20110626-OYT1T00053.htm)

TV industry outlook paper finished and submitted at last. Am looking forward to getting back to my 'Directionality' project.

Working on my 'Future of TV Japan' paper - think I need to lose 4000 words or so. Oh dear.