the qualia journal

Just a short note before I dash off this morning. Whenever I go out of Japan, I buy a Swatch at the airport. I like its bearable lightness o...

On my trip to Wales I experienced another extraordinary things. I was studing in Cambridge then, and was accustomed to the restrained way in...

Once I was traveling in Wales, and went to a small town called St. David. I was strolling along the streets, when I discovered a small and c...

As we live every day, our mental activities cover only a small portion of all possible worlds. We have to eat, and our attention is focused ...

I came to the city of Kanazawa. I met with my best friend Yoshihide Tamori. Whenever I come to a far-off land, nowadays, I think about how t...

When I was a senior high to university student, I used to enter essay contests and win prizes. When I was 15, I won a trip to Canada. I went...

Although it is sometimes a dirty word, I consider myself as "a kind of" intellectual. (Meaning I am prepared to be "dirty...

In the center of Honshu, roughly speaking, you find mountainous areas. Japan might be perceived as a country of big cities with incredible c...

The closing sentences of "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin are beautiful. ------------ It is interesting to contemplate a ...

In the game of soccer, it is a well known fact that the probability of winning the match is asymmetric between a home game and an away game....

Over the last few days, I watched the film "Wilde" (1997) on my laptop. The role of Oscar Wilde was played by the British comedi...

When I was five, my mother introduced me to Mr. Ito, who was studying entomology at a University. It was Mr. Ito who introduced me into the ...

One crucial point of the argument of Richard Dawkins is that we do not need religion to explain the foundations of our morality. Scientific ...

I watched the documentary "The Root of All Evil?" written and presented by Richard Dawkins. It was originally broadcast as a two p...

I think one of the most important things in life is to forget. As we live along, things accumulate, and the momentum becomes a killer rather...

As a kid I was fond of playing baseball. I was not a particularly good hitter. When I was cornered into two strikes, the bad image of a stri...

Believe it or not, Japanese University students start the activity of searching for a company to work for ("Shukatsu") more than o...

Nowadays, I am very uneasy. I look up at the sky from time to time, and think when it must be. Should it be on Saturday, Sunday, or sometime...

I have been to the wonderful Arashiyama district in the suburbs of Kyoto many times, starting from the school trip at the age of 15. For som...

I once heard that Mr. Ivica Osim, when he was serving as the head coach of the Japanese national football team, used to say to the players ...