the qualia journal

I am in Nikko, where a series of temples were build in the early 1600s for the first Shogun of the Tokugawa government, Ieyasu. Now it is a ...

When I arrived in the U.K. to do two years' research in Cambridge, the first thing to do was to find a home. I looked around, and found ...

I am still recovering from my experience of being stranded in Europe for 4 days due to the volcanic eruption. I could have enjoyed it as an...

A great sigh of relief was emitted from my mouth, or rather, my soul, as I finally made it onto the Lufthansa flight to Tokyo. I was sitting...

Today the Lufthansa started operating its long distance flights, despite the still existing problem of the volcanic ash. I therefore would h...

I am still stuck in Munich due to the distant echo of the vigorous activities of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Last evening, in an effort to...

In the morning I went to the airport, to make changes to my reservation. As the telephone lines are always busy, one needs to go to the airp...

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...