the qualia journal

I was walking in the backstreets of Tokyo after nightfall. It was a chilly January day, and I was listening to an audiobook of Middlemarch...

  So I have been watching The Office American version at last, as it is being streamed on Netflix in Japan. I am a great fan of Ricky G...

  I have recently repeatedly heard news coverage of the Chinese Dream pushed by President Xi Jinping. In the Japanese media, the Great Rej...

In today's youtube posting I discussed the permanent ban of Mr. Trump from twitter and its implications. I fear that there is a dang...

The Uncertain exhibition at SCAI THE BATHHOUSE in the downtown area of Tokyo is a great leap forward into the brave new world by one of th...

The world premier of Dai Fujikura's opera, A Dream of Armageddon, at the New National Theater Tokyo was an utter triumph. Fujikura, a...

The Osaka referendum on whether or not to abolish the City of Osaka and give rise to new integrated government system was a big news in Ja...

  I don't know if it is just me, but I though the appearance of Borat in the Jimmy Kimmel show was perfectly hilarious. https://www....

  The upcoming U.S. Presidential election might turn out to be as complex and incomprehensible as the covid-19 pandemic. To start, becau...

  I watched Mr. Trump's performance in CBS's 60 Minutes on its website. I did not think that questions from the host Lesley Stah...

11-12 January 1997 (Note: This is an essay based on Roger Penrose's visit to Cambridge while I was doing postdoc in Horace Barlow Labo...

With the outbreak of COVID-19, countries all over the globe have taken stringent measures. Japan has been one of the rare exceptions, ...

Although research on artificial natural language processing has made great progress, so far it is avoiding the most salient feature of...

One of the cognitive difficulties involved with COVID-19 is that the whole things is like a lottery. You can take care and make ne...

So the torch relay is soon to start in Japan in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics. However, as everybody is keenly aware, the atmospher...

The coronavirus outbreak has entered Japan some time ago, but as of today, there is a strange and almost eerie atmosphere of calm in t...

I love cup noodles, but the problem is, well, you know it, you cannot claim it to be super healthy to indulge in the joy of eating a b...

Advancements in artificial intelligence is surely impressive, but AI fails short of reproducing one of the (or, arguably, the ) most ...

Marie Kondo's spark joy meme was a great inspiration for many Japanese. In particular, the fact that she was able to do a popula...

Ken Mogi "I am afraid I have to tell you that there is a serious problem with your Mars Mission," said Mack with a lon...