the qualia journal

I think there is what could be tentatively called the Nietzsche phenomenon. Friedrich Nietzsche was a great philosopher. His philosophica...

Tokyo Aircheck #3 The other day, Japan's prime minister Yoshihide Suga made some remarks on Tokyo Olympics in the Question Time at p...

Tokyo Aircheck #2 Dr. Shigeru Omi is a respected medic with a track record of earnest work and personal integrity, but he probably has ...

Tokyo Aircheck #1 In Tokyo, there is a growing feeling that the Olympics and Paralympics would go forward, mainly influenced by the act...

A paper by Harvard law Professor Mark Ramseyer has recently been drawing controversy. Ramseyer, J. M. (2021). Contracting for sex in the...

I watched the acclaimed Netflix original White Tiger. I should say I did not resonate with the film so much. The White Tiger is not so be...

  I had the pleasure to have an online conversation with Prof. Adrian Cheok and Senator Fraser Anning. I have been friends with Adrian f...

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...