the qualia journal

It is such a quantum pleasure to welcome Prof. Stuart Hameroff at the University of Tokyo Komaba campus. This would be an informal, in-depth...

I enjoyed Afterlife 3, written and directed by Ricky Gervais. As is well known, Mr. Gervais is an atheist. In Afterlife 3, however, there ...

The Lost Daughter, written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, is a complexly rich statement on womanhood and motherhood. There is that enig...

On 26th of December last year (2021), I had the delight of viewing Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story in Cinema Onomichi. Onomichi, needless to...

A few days after viewing The Power of the Dog, my mind is still vibrating in the recollected afterglow of impressions I received from this...

For some time, I have been thinking of writing a fictional work titled Albert's Regrets. When you think of the life of Albert Einstein, ...

I wrote about this in my forthcoming book The Way of Nagomi, and I think the editor did not cut it (although at this particular moment I a...

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...