the qualia journal

I don't like wearing a coat even in the middle of winter, as I dislike the feeling of suffocation as one enters the indoors. Consequentl...

Nobel Peace Prize for Google! http://twitter.com/kenmogi 　

Google's recent decision and moves as regards their operation is laudable. I here pledge my fullest support. The online manifesto by Jon...

I am in Hakata now. My mother was originally from this region. When I was a kid mother used to take me to the Kyushu Island. Summers in Kyus...

It is quite fascinating how a particular piece of culture is accepted on a foreign soil. The Japanese have never understood, for example, ho...

Mystery is generated and deepens when you can experience something at a particular place and time only. Misere, composed by Gregorio Allegr...

My best philosopher friend Ken Shiotani is rather big, weighing 120kg according to his recent report. In this slim overconscious civilizatio...

My body is stoutly built, and my legs are not that long. Therefore, I am not a good one for dancing in the style of ballet. However, I quite...

The great novel "Sanshiro" ends thus. --------- Yoshiro moved closer to Sanshiro. "How do you like 'Woman in Forest?'...

Drank with my best friends until late at night. Had an early morning, but simply had to stay. There are nights like this when you simply wan...

During the course of my life, I sometimes search for dissonance. Consonances are surely beautiful. To drink a good white wine in a sunlit ro...

To encounter new things, you often need to see things in the periphery. The central vision captures things of interest as you understand it ...

Take the starry night by Vincent van Gogh, for example. This oil painting, painted in 1889, strikes one with a vivid impression. However, Go...

When you watch classic films shot in Japan's Showa era like Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low", you are surprised by the swif...

In Yasujiro Ozu's film "Early Summer" ("Bakushu"), there is a surprise scene where Noriko (played by Setsuko Hara) a...

As a kid I used to stay in the blanket, especially on a cold morning. I would wrap myself entirely in the warm cloth, with only my head stic...

I feel as if I am in a period of inner transformation. I try to do things that have not been possible so far, and shy away from things that ...

I love the Beatles. The definition of my heaven is when I drive in the U.K. countryside, listening to a Beatles album, preferably St. Pepper...

I had several dialogues with the artist Shusaku Arakawa in 2006, including one television shoot. The location for the TV dialogue was in th...

It is interesting that intellectuals who are not ostensibly religious are drawn to the life of Jesus Christ. Oscar Wilde, whose life on the ...