Though it's much cooler than usual this summer, cicadas never fail to turn up. This one is called "Aburazemi", or large brown cicada and seen across the nation. They start to show up en masse in July and keep singing from the morning to the evening, sometimes deep into the night. We Japanese associate cicadas with summer.This link shows you how it sings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoAZJ6PlHm4&feature=related
