the qualia journal

I met with Mr. Adam Smith, who is the product management director for the Book Search service at Google. Mr. Smith visited Japan on the occa...

Recently, I was invited to the Kankyu-an of Mushanokojisenke in Kyoto. I was to attend the most formal of tea ceremonies hosted by the next ...

Everybody is getting busier these days. The internet and the mobile phone are responsible for making us occupied with various things all day...

I have this bad habit of scribing nonsensical things in my notebook during meetings and conferences. Just listening to other people talk see...

I met with Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google for an interview to be broadcast in the "The Professionals" program in NHK during his v...

I met with Mr. Yukio Sakamoto, CEO of Elpida Memory Inc. for interview in "The Professionals" program that I host with Ms. Miki Su...

Some time ago, I made a half conscious, and half unconscious resolution that I will basically refer to positive things coming from positive ...

Leonard da Vinci's "Annunciation" is now on exhibit in the Tokyo National Museum. Taking a good look at it, I realized how it ...

In a warm night, when the wind is gently breezing around my body, there is one memory that comes back to me again and again. It is about two...

As one gets along with time in life, many thing accumulate in the brain. You cannot recall them explicitly. But it is all there. Therefrom c...

This saturday morning, I chatted with Dr. Ueda of Riken about his research on biological clockes, in the editorial office of Nikkei Science...

Recently, I met with the architect Kengo Kuma for intervew on the weekly "The Professionals" program that I am hosting for NHK wit...

We are supposedly living in a "dog year". But certain things take longer time. Take the maturation of whiskey, for example. If you...

We love the cherry blossoms in spring because of their short existence on earth. If these flowery manifestations of the power of life stayed...

Homeostasis, the maintenance of the status quo, is an important aspect of all biological processes. Evolution deals with a long time scale, ...

Recently I met with Mr. Mochio Umeda, the famed visionary based in Silicon Valley, in the headquarters of the IT venture "Hatena" ...

Fads are interesting social cognitive phenomena. Something becomes popular, and loses popularly and wanes in its push. I suspect many trends...

This week I went to the southern island of Okinawa to give a lecture in front of 100 or so people involved in pharmaceutical business. The s...

Ms. Miki Sumiyoshi, co-presenter of "The Professionals" show on NHK, recently said something which set me pondering. During conver...

The basic thesis is that memories of the past are not fixed. They transform themselves and change their shapes and appearances every time yo...