This trilobite prowls around in a room and is supposed to eat up dust and dirt on floors. A gift from my sister, the secondhand gismo is so stupid that she seems to have decided to throw it away in our new house. However, as it turns out, …

He came from northern England, stayed 3 weeks with our family, fully enjoyed boiling heat here in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima, and last week went back to his country, where the highest temperature is only 15 degree Celsius. Unlike most of t…

The fireworks seen from the balcony were like a luminous speck but our imagination inflated them to the huge ball of showering lights with a diameter of hundreds of meters. Sitting on a chair in the breeze of the night with a glass of cold…

I really can't do two things at a time. I can't study or read while listening to music. If I forced music down into my ears through earphones, like young people these days do, I couldn't concentrate on anything else. When my children were …

When an evening draws near, the west sky over the horizon will turn to a milky tangerine, which gradually blends into a surrendering blue.

Game is over Here's visualized dynamism of steam, ice particles and air flow, called cloud. Far, far away is the cluster of newly built high-rise buildings in Musashi Kosugi. Today is one of those days when we can feel the dynamism, vastne…