An alternate title for this video could be how to keep a kid happy during a solid month of rain. The Japanese use the word tsuyu (alternately baiu) to describe the early summer weather pattern of extensive rain which affects most of the Japanese islands. In most areas the rainy season begins in early June and lasts until mid July although regional variations do exits. Though it does not typically rain every day during the rainy season it may certainly seem to be the case after many long days of intense downpour. The term tsuyuu literally means plum rain and this name is significant as the rainy season does normally coincide with the time when plums are ripening on the trees.

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