the qualia journal

I have several weaknesses in life. One of them is that when I eat ramen noodles, I invariably go for the miso flavor. I know there are other...

During my stay in Vancouver, I went to the Langara college to take English lessons. I used to take the bus, and would ask for "transfer...

One of the things that I really enjoyed doing in British Columbia was blueberry picking. Verna took me to the Richmond Nature Park, which wa...

When you are young you do incredibly stupid things from time to time. Incredibly stupid seen with the benefit of hindsight, that is. When I ...

After my initial sojourn in Canada, I repeated the visit several times, and learned to love British Columbia and the surrounding areas. Life...

When your English is still clumsy, and you have a small vocabulary, you have a hard time among the native speakers. The most trying is when ...

t was the summer of 1978. I was a freshman at the senior high, and I was being bombarded by Trevor and Randy with English every day. I somet...

When I was 15, I traveled to Vancouver. It was summer. That was the first time that I ever went abroad. Although I had by then studied Engli...

When I was young I used to have many objections against the so-called blockbuster films from Hollywood. I liked films by Yasujiro Ozu, Andre...

The other day, walking along a Tokyo street, I noticed that a plum tree had started to bloom. While my mind was being deeply shrouded in the...

People talk a lot nowadays about cloud computing. When put in the strictly algorithmic context, there may be many targets and obstacles, sti...

I had a chat with my philosopher friend Ken Shiotani over lunch. He was lecturing in Hosei University, and I caught him as he was waiting fo...

I met with Ilya Farber on Sunday afternoon. When I first heard that he was staying in Tokyo from Friday to Monday, I was amazed at his hecti...

The functions of molecules such implicated in social contexts as vasopressin and oxytocin would naturally depend on the biochemical and biop...

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...