the qualia journal

Yesterday, I wrote something which, with the benefit of hindsight, seemed to foretell what to happen. "In any case the soft beauty of K...

From Frankfurt, I flew to the ancient Polish capital of Krakow. Already on the way to the city center, I was seized by the poignant beauty o...

On the last evening in Dresden, I went to a chamber concert in the Semperoper. An gentleman looking like Albert Einstein walked onto stage, ...

I was walking along the streets of Dresden, and found a bookshop. Dropping in, I wanted to by a Reclam. The yellow cover and its small size ...

Though my present life style is hectic and occupied, it does not have a regular schedule. I don't go to the office at 8 o'clock ever...

I am in Dresden now. On the way to Frankfurt from Tokyo, I watched "Avatar". I was meaning to see this blockbuster film, but did n...

Japan is a very mountainous country. The larger parts of the nation are mountainous, making people inhabit the limited space of the plains. ...

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 ...