The city held the same atmosphere when I got off the bullet train at the platform. The crowd were going toward the ticket gate to the concourse to join the familiar flow of passing people. I walked the concourse following the crowd to take…

My mother in law came to visit us the other day from Ibaraki. We thought and thought out how to entertain the lonely widow during her short visit. We somehow came up with an idea that we should take her a bus tour called "pigeon bus". One …

I got an email from my friend a few days ago with 2 newspaper clips that reported a wedding on the Valentine's day. One of the newspapers uses a full page to report this auspicious event (The right photo is on it). I know the bride. When I…

A friend of mine teaches physics at a college. He told me many stories about how students these days lack abilities of thinking and application. When he was explaining, in his physics class, a falling object on a slope using trigs (that's …

Whenever I teach high school students, I cannot help wondering why Japanese education curriculum is such a rubbish. It leaves very little room for teacher's discretion. Our government seems to stick too much to standardizing curriculum in …

Cloning is another extreme example of narrowing variety. We came to this form of a creature, a tool user, with an adorable big brain and speaking ability. It's just because we have been winning the fierce and cruel fight in the survival-of…

Variety is strength when a society, nation, human species or any kind of groups are talked about. The potato famine that happened in Ireland and Scottish Highlands in the middle of 19th century tells us how dangerous it could be to depend …

Hayfever is called hayfever because its season overlaps with haying season. But haying season starts in May in the US. So American hayfever may be prevalent in different season than Japanese one that starts in February. What is particular …

Itchy and puffy eyes. Running nose. Sneezing three times in a row. Here comes again! But this year it came back stronger to me. Yesterday, I could not keep my eyes open in my office. I couldn't read literatures which I wanted to add to my …

Now that my report is almost complete, I have to catch up with a lot of things that I could not do this month or two. First I have to make my income tax report to submit to the local tax office which is due this month(Is it? I forget). Thi…

First I clicked a web address in the email from a meeting host. A website for the meeting opened. Then in the web page I entered my name, email address, and password that I was given the day before from the meeting host. There appeared my …

Do you have anything you want to have now? You may have wanted a washing machine or fridge or a black and white TV 50 years ago. It might have been a car 30 years ago. It might have been a big screen liquid crystal TV, cell phone, ipod a c…