sato keisuke, nhk world. s >> >> time to check on the weather with our meteorologist.o, we have spring-like temperatures here in tokyo on thursday, but people woke up to cold and gloomy skies this morning. i saw people bundling up to get to work. so what should we expect this weekend? >> it's going to be mainly dry on the pacific side of japan, including tokyo friday going into sunday. but some snowfall is expected in northern japan this weekend. we have a low pressure system over the sea of japan. it will move east and produce wet weather, especially along the northwestern side of the country. there is the possibility of severe thunderstorms with a chance of hail and damaging winds. some rain could turn to snow in the tohoku region and parts of hokkaido as we go into sunday. sapporo will get snowy weather on sunday. and tokyo will have much cooler temperatures on friday. the high will be 13 degrees. that's 5 degrees colder than what we saw yesterday. for the rest of east asia, a large high pressure system will create dry conditions across many parts of china and the k