the qualia journal

As the sheer volume of information available for an average individual increased, we really need a keen and well-tuned "sixth sense...

As the sheer volume of information available for an average individual increased, we really need a keen and well-tuned "sixth sense...

(continued from yesterday) The phrase "a fool can be cured only when he dies." is a very famous one in Japan, known even among the...

Japanese literature has a rich tradition in the philosophy of life. The genre of Rokyoku, in which important events and life histories of fa...

We have our weekly lab meeting, where we hold the journal club and also discuss things. One of my students (he has a Ph.D now so he is techn...

When I was in the teens, I often wanted to have everything RIGHT NOW! As ignorant youths often do, I wanted fame, not in many years later, b...

Nowadays I really enjoy a cold glass of beer in the evening. After a strenuous work day in the heat island of Tokyo, what better ways are th...

Yesterday, when I returned from the studio of All Japan Senior High School Quiz championship, I found a box. Tomio said that it was for me. ...

(continued from yesterday) I left the mountain brook and started to walk towards the middle-aged man's voice. The road was covered with ...

To this day, I do not understand what was behind my impulse to hide from the middle-aged man. It was not that he looked dangerous or anythin...

The middle-aged man I met along the mountain brook said that we walk together. I said fine. So both of us set out to look for Panchala ganes...

When I was 12 years old, I wanted so much to capture a particular butterfly species, Panchala ganesa loomisi,. It was a small and lovely but...

Ichikawa Ebizo XI is a good friend of mine and a great Kabuki actor. He has a big secret. Ebizo keeps a dragon, and the dragon keeps growing...

My mother is originally from the southern island of Kyushu. She was born in 1936. On August 9th, 1945, at the age of 8, she was in the city ...

I think my first love "happened" to me when I went to my mother's hometown in Kyushu at the age of 5. One of my mother's s...

(Continued from yesterday's entry "The firefly night") My sister and I wandered around in the night, sometimes hand in hand. M...

When I was about 10 years old, there was an announcement in the local newspaper that a "firefly night" would be held in a nearby p...

When I go for jogging in the park forest nearby, I am always watching out for butterflies. They are lovely creatures. I used to try to catch...

Every child is born into a system of language. I was born into the universe of Japanese, spoken by 130 million people but virtually confined...

So I am back in Tokyo, back into the heat and humidity. When at home, I do not use the air conditioner, as I don't like the artificial a...