Hurt my back and can't move much nor sit long. The cause as far as I can remember is that I lifted a small box of a hanging scroll (forged painting of 応挙) from floor to a shelf in a 140cm high storage room --- not enough hight for a grow…

The average temperature yesterday was well below ten Celsius but inside the house was kept almost constant from 22 to 24. What makes this ideal condition? An insulated layer of concrete lying under the floor does. It stores heat during nig…

Carl Sagan said each of us is an integrated entity of 10,000 trillion cells. Each cell carries a complete copy of the blue print of you, according to which you have been created and sustained. Somehow each cell knows its own job: remember …

Went to Nagoya University to talk over the issue of our future collaborative research work. As it turned out, they would like me to be a visiting professor. Visiting professor? I did't have any idea what the post was like. I am not the lea…

To provide technological consultation for the company I retired from, I visited their office in Kawasaki. The problem they are facing now is an old and new issue. Old because we've had similar problems for a long time, new because we haven…

This might be it. Perfectly trapezoidal, snow covered, glowing in a morning sunlight, standing aloof against the blue sky. This is THE Fuji Osamu Dazai(太宰治) described as "shamefully beautiful"; expression perhaps only the Japanese can u…

Lying on a sofa and looking up at the sky, I see clouds flowing reluctantly from the west to east. I float with them, adrift.