the qualia journal

From yesterday's twitter entry. kenmogi Have become the world's fastest leopard. 7C of the 9th in Shinkansen heading for Kyoto. Corr...

I usually take a morning stroll to a convenience store nearby, and pick up some morning goods. For the last couple of days, I have walked on...

At the end of another busy day, I went to Kazahana in the Shinjuku district. Kazahana is a legendary literary bar. "Kazahana" (...

I love the film in which Glenn Gould plays the Goldberg Variations. What a beautiful procession! Aria, 30 variations, and then aria again. A...

I love autumn when the sky is blue and high. My best stroll would be along a river bank, where the autumn flowers display their miscellaneou...

"De Profundis" is a work in the form of a letter that Oscar Wilde wrote during his time in prison. In it, there is this beautiful ...

It is a remarkable aspect of human cognition that when something passes, it remains unnoticed for a long time. We recognize the golden time ...

The decision of the Nobel committee to award Mr. Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize was laudable. Some people might say that it has been pre...

When I was a kid, I found it really difficult to swallow the pills. It was not that the pills were particularly large. These were ordinary p...

Without even knowing it, one becomes a prisoner of one's own prejudices, I thought. I was in a Tokyo bar as the typhoon number 18 approa...

I went to the Superdeluxe club in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. I was late, having finished my work for a broadcaster at 22 hours. As I ar...

The return of Soseki Natsume from the two years' stay in London, in retrospect, was a watershed in the cultural history of modern Japan....

It is often said that the stream of consciousness was discovered by the great American psychologist William James. Needless to say, the stre...

I have been up and doing recently, for quite a long time. Galloping has to stop somewhere and sometime. Now seems to be the time for reflect...

(Continued from yesterday's entry of "Tiger Jeet Singh".) I hear that Tiger Jeet Singh is now a successful business person bas...

When I was 10, my then best friend Toshikazu Shimamura took me to see a Professional Wrestling match. The fight was between Antonio Inoki an...

In the suburb of Matsuyama , off the coast, there is a small island. It is famous as Soseki Natsume referred to it as the "Turner Isla...

My second day in Matsuyama , and I have been pondering the friendship between Soseki Natsume . and Shiki Masaoka . Soseki is the father of ...

I am in Matsuyama, for matters concerning the great writer Soseki Natsume. On the way to Matsuyama airport, I was reading the book "Osc...

I had an interesting dialogue with my best chum Takashi Ikegami, at the Aoyama Book Center in Tokyo. It was meant as a launch event for my l...