The base of our new house completed at last. All the surfaces are now thickly covered with blue boards of heat insulator that should protect us from the purgatorial heat in summer and titanic coldness in winter. The base is separated by th…

Pouring... Raindrops join together into hundreds of streams running and wiggling on the huge black roof of the next door kindergarten. They all rush into a gutter, flooding it, overflowing, thumping onto the ground in an array of jumbling …

Blasphemy Too much obsession with nature is as unnatural as loving a plastic imitation flower because you love flowers. That's blasphemy to her. We are natural by nature whatever artificial we do. Never forget it.

Things go from "less probable" to "more probable". If you put a spoonful of salt and sugar in a box and shake it, they will get mixed into salty sweet powder and never return to their original pure states, no matter how many times more you…

The US announced a plan to send a manned-spaceship to Mars by mid 2030s. If I am blessed to live that long, I really want to see pictures of astronauts walking and jumping on the red soil of Mars if it may be too much to expect of them dan…

Snowed? Crazy... It's record-breaking late when it should be spring. Weather recently has undergone violent changes from summery heat to wintry chill. Does it all come down to our industrial activities?

Spring seems put on hold. The sky is low and leaden. Cold drizzle, icy wind... What's all this? A middle aged man walks past me from behind stooping slightly in a black coat with its collar turned up, one hand in the pocket and the other p…

YAMATO ROAD 大和路 In the course of my work, I suddenly needed to visit Kyoto-University, Uji campus. On hearing that, my wife suddenly wanted to go with me to enjoy the prime of the spring in the old, historic city while I was tied up in …