the qualia journal

 When Soseki Natsume wrote the first chapter of his debut novel I AM A CAT, he probably did not expect to become a professional novelist. ...

I haven't been able to write anything in this space for a week now, due to a hectic schedule involving lectures and travel. Meanwhil...

This is an artwork that I presented at the Peace Exhibition held in Spiral, Omotesando, Japan, from18th November to 20th November.  It wa...

I was reading Soseki Natsume again. A few days ago I finished Kojin, and was moved by the impression of the brother, who was intelligent b...

The alleged falling of Russian missile in Poland is a case of ambiguities. Whether the missile was Ukrainian or Russian in origin, the l...

Numbers exist, in their natural style of exactness. We can make operations on them, and arrive at interesting relationships. As an ideolo...

When I was 10, I was in the public library, looking for books to read. One particular volume was in the shelf, and the back of it appeared...

In the last few days, some people have suggested mastodon as an alternative to twitter.  I signed up, and I like the cartoons and feels....

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...