the qualia journal

One of the greatest disappointments in life is that there are so many intolerant people. It hurts me deeply, when I see somebody carelessly ...

I used to take some days off when I was a pupil. When I had cold, I would say to my mother, "mom, I have fever", and lie in bed th...

The liberal arts education and learning remains important at any age. However, it is important to realize that what it signifies to be learn...

The brain has a great ability to betray you. Betraying you in the positive sense, that is. At some stages of life, when you are entering a n...

My artist friend Tatsuo Miyajima has started a new project called Peace Shadow. It is a petition for peace, made by burning your shadow. Ple...

When I was studying physics as an undergraduate at the university, I wrote an essay arguing for the necessity of reducing the cost of intern...

When Soseki Natsume was offered doctorate degree from the Japanese government in the Meiji era, he declined, saying that he has been living ...

I had an interesting public dialogue with the mystery writer Ms. Shizuko Natsuki. After the lively conversation, I went to a book shop (Kino...

Later in the evening, I came to Hakata, the central city in my mother's native area of northern Kyushu. Although I am a frequent visitor...

When I was a kid, I used to climb mountains a lot. Japan is a very mountainous country, and it is not difficult to find a mountain nearby an...

Yesterday was the girls' day (Hina-Matsuri) in Japan. When I was a boy, because boys will be boys, and I wanted to follow suit, I preten...

The Japanese are famously crazy about the cherry blossoms. When the season comes (usually from the end of March to the beginning of April, d...

My best friend and great producer Moichi Kuwahara has kindly put my tweet alongside a nice photo. http://twitter.com/kenmogi http://twitpic....

I came across an interesting concept recently. Muscle confusion. The idea is to expose the body to the greatest variety of movements, interv...

A few days ago, I tweeted: Creativity is not proportional to intelligence per se. Creativity is proportional to the courage to break from th...

Traveling is quite important in life, as staying in one place and a single context restricts how one's brain and body function. In an er...

When you encounter a new idea, the influence is often brutal. It takes possession of your whole system, and violent reactions sometimes foll...

I had some glasses of really good sake last night, and got drunk. I was with my best friends. We just finished a very strenuous work day. A ...

I went to the NTT R&D forum 2010 . I met with several very interesting people, and encountered exciting lines of research. It is intere...

I normally do not watch television much. It is not that I do not care for good programs. I simply do not have the time. There was a testimon...