the qualia journal

I gave two 90 minutes lectures at Keio University Hiyoshi campus. The audience was the graduate students and general public, about 200 in al...

On the way back to Tokyo airborne, and onto central Tokyo by car, I was continuously writing a series of essays which unfortunately met thei...

On the last day in London, we met with Dominique O'Brien, who became eight times World Memory Champion. The current Champion, Ben Pridmo...

I did not "agree" with the tightly controlled process of learning how to drive that is normal in my native country. So I dropped o...

Walking along the London streets, even for a short time, is always an uplifting experience. People has identified New York city in the Unite...

I have moved to London yesterday night. When I awoke in the car, people were shouting "Abbey Road!" A surprise encounter with the ...

I stayed in Cambridge for two years from 1995 to 1997, and have been visiting regularly since. I know the streets in out. Memories would flo...

There's something about U.K. that resonates deep with me. Maybe it is the unpretending attitudes of people. Perhaps the spirit of unders...

On the plane to London Heathrow, I had to write several essay manuscripts. Theoretically, it was possible to do them after arrival, and make...

The reader of this blog might recall that recently I was stranded in Munich for 4 days due to the volcanic ash cloud crisis. Here I go to Eu...

When you are a child, there are many things that leave an impression on you. As you get older, you grow out of these things. But then one da...

As I walk home at night, these days, I notice that the moon is getting fatter every day. What a dramatic change! To think that shifts in th...

Even if a book sells a million copies, it would at best reach a very small proportion of the population. The same is true for a mega-hit fil...

It seems like another job will take me Europe again within a few days. This time I will be flying to U.K. I have some trepidations naturally...

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...