Well the most important thing to report has to do with that typhoon that formed the day we originally departed Yokohama.  According to  Wikipedia : Typhoon Koto , known in the Philippines as   Typhoon Verbena , was a fairly strong and erratic  tropical cyclone  that impacted much of the  Visayas  and portions of  Luzon and  Mindanao  in the  Philippines . The twenty-seventh  named storm  and fourteenth  typhoon  of the  annual typhoon season , Koto developed off the eastern coast of Mindanao on November 23, then tracked westward across the country, making seven landfalls before emerging over the South China Sea, where it strengthened into a typhoon. However, the system gradually weakened and became virtually stationary off the coast of Vietnam before dissipating altogether. Let me begin with Day 9 on the Diamond Princess.  Did not do much except eat and sleep.  Lunch came in two parts. ...