Mr. Toba said his teachers constantly asked Taiga to remove the shades at school.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
Not all of his contemporaries agree with Dr Ambrose about Toba's effect on humanity.
Mr. Toba would take Taiga and Kanato to school every morning at 7:40 a.m.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
Mr. Toba promised to try, but ended up having to work late and missed it.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
"Of course I regret" not giving the boys more time, Mr. Toba said.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
Kanato, who sat on his father's lap for a while, laid on the floor, laughing and playing with Mr. Toba's aunt and two cousins.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
Some tools were sandwiched in ash from the eruption of the Toba super-volcano in Indonesia that geologists can date very accurately to 74, 000 years ago.
Many rules thwart the recovery, says Futoshi Toba, the beleaguered mayor.
The family usually goes to Kumi's parents' home for New Year's, for example, but this year, Mr. Toba may instead take them to his hometown in Tokyo.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
But the investigation finds no changes in the composition of the sediments that would indicate a significant dip in temperatures in East Africa concurrent with the Toba eruption.
This body of water is some 7, 000km west of Toba in the East African Rift Valley, from where our Homo sapiens species emerged in the past 100, 000 years or so.
Complicating the issue is the volcanic eruption of Toba, in Sumatra, around 74, 000 years ago, which injected so much sulfurous dust into the high atmosphere that it caused prolonged droughts that might have come close to wiping out many human populations.
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During dinner late one night, while Mr. Toba relaxed over a Japanese hot pot and local liquor, Taiga stomped around the house in basketball warm-ups and two pairs of eyeglasses one for his eyes and a pair of dark sunglasses perched on his forehead, because he thought they were cool.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
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