the qualia journal

It has been sometime since my last entry into this journal. Lazy boy! (As a matter of fact, I am keeping my blog in Japanese with punctuali...

I was not well. I had a cold, and yet kept drinking with my friends until the small hours. The folly had a destructive effect the next day. ...

Abstracts presented by our research group at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting 2005 （Washington D.C., U.S.A.) http://apu.sfn.org/a...

Papers presented at ICONIP 2005 (Taipei, Oct 30 to Nov 2 2005) http://cnn.cn.nctu.edu.tw/iconip2005/ Omata, K. and Mogi, K. Robust phoneme p...

The other day I went to a studio in central Tokyo and had my photos taken. Mr. Yamada of Bungeishunju publishing was with me. These photos w...

Autumn is probably the best season of the year for me. I particularly love the sight of the Japanese pampas grass swaying to and flo in the ...

Many people have said various things about video games. Although there are many pros and cons, one thing is strangely missing from the curre...

It was always a treat to go to the opera at the Covent Garden during the two years I stayed in the U.K. At one time, my best philosopher fr...

I went to the municipality of Inashiki to give a public lecture on brain and mind. In Japan, railways are big. Although Inashiki is in the K...

National politics is only the nation's residents' concern, so it may not be interesting for people outside Japan but yesterday was a...

I had a public discussion with Yohei Nishimura, who is known for his arts education program for the blind. In addition, Nishimura is a famou...

Close scrutiny into history is revealing that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 and then on Nagasaki three days later...

I had a dialogue with the artist Rei Naito in the Bungeishunju building in Kioicho. The diaglogue will be published in "Bungakukai...

The long awaited Apple iTunes Music store opened here in Japan at last! I checked the site from my iTunes the first thing in the morning. Th...

I went to Dublin only once. I attended a conference organized by Tony Veale of the University College Dublin. When I and Yoshihide Tamori en...

Piet Hut came to visit our lab for the second time. Dr. Fumihide Tanaka of Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories was also present. We disc...

The French film "March of the Penguins" directed by Luc Jacquet is being shown in Japan. I went to the preview show. Although the ...

When I was a kid, August was a special month. You had one month long vacation, in which you would go to places. Sometimes I would climb moun...

As a perfect Wagnerite I could not miss the New National Theater (in Tokyo) production of "Get back the Ring!". It was termed a ...

Piet Hut's hightlights. The famed astrophysicist Piet Hut, who recently came to visit me , has a log of the highlights of his life. He ...