the qualia journal

Watching Emerald Fennell's film based on the immortal Wuthering Heights in a Tokyo theater was a very unique experience.  It was a wor...

Matcha is so nagomi. Not only in terms of the feeling that a cup of matcha brings, but also in terms of the constitution principles invol...

Kintsugi is wonderful because you don't throw away something that is broken. You amend it, and a new vista is born, sometimes even bet...

I read Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights for the first time since my college days. I was struck by the sheer honesty about human nature...

I weighed 85.9 kg on the morning of Tokyo Marathon 2026. To be precise, I took off some extra clothes compared to usual, so I must have weig...

A while ago I went to the city of Mito, in the northern suburb of Tokyo, for a day trip. I gave a public lecture there. On my way back, I...

I went to Yokohama yesterday for a public lecture and there was a dragon. There is the legend of a carp going upstream in a  fall, and the...

Qualia Journal. I was in a public discussion session in Tokyo. I typically do not stand or sit still. I am always moving around like a...

Qualia Journal For the record, I do not write to do lists externally. I keep the list in my head. It is cumbersome and a waste of ti...

I love reading books while walking around in my room. I also love it when I go out for a run, or when I meet people, but reading books insid...

I visited artist Tadanori Yokoo's studio. It was so wonderful to talk about art, life, death, Yukio Mishima, Andy Warhol, Takashi Murak...

Qualia Journal I don't use ChatGPT and other LLMs for having a psychological tête-à-tête about my life. I predominantly use LLMs fo...