1 day agoA Long Way to Freedom hr670A Long Way to Freedom hr670 I have started a video Podcast. A complex about looks resides in me always, all my life. When I was a child, my mother used to say, “If only you don’t have a nose like that,” by shading my nose with her hand. She…Podcast3 min readPodcast3 min read
Aug 19For Myself Rather Than for the Earth hr669I am stingy. I switch off the lights, turn off a faucet, and shut the refrigerator door as soon as I finish using them. I mend holey socks and replace loose elastic strings on pajama pants instead of buying new ones. Whether at home or at a restaurant, I never…Sustainable Development3 min readSustainable Development3 min read
Jul 22Good and Evil hr668I haven’t seen my parents for about five years now. When I saw them last time, they were in their late seventies and my mother told me an episode for a giggle. It goes as follows. During a recent trip my parents took, they went along the highway beside a…Motherhood4 min readMotherhood4 min read
Jun 18Something Never Obsolete hr667There are many things that used to be common and have become obsolete now. In Japan where I was born and grew up, an analog calculator called ‘soroban’, a Japanese abacus, had been so popular and seen everywhere when I was a child. Almost every store and household had one…Japan5 min readJapan5 min read
May 20Lazy and Talented hr666I started taking piano lessons at the age of four and had continued on and off until I was fourteen years old. Yet, not a single classical piece exists that I can play properly. There are several clear reasons for that. To begin with, the motive for the lesson was…Piano5 min readPiano5 min read
Apr 21The Happiest Memory hr665What I remember as the happiest memory in my childhood is the day that my parents took my younger sister and me to the confectionery factory for a guided tour when I was about seven or eight years old. Theme parks hadn’t arrived in Japan yet and even a factory…Japan5 min readJapan5 min read
Mar 17The Happiest Place in Tokyo hr664It was 1983 when the theme park which host is the mouse opened in Japan for the first time outside the U.S. Two years after it opened, I left my hometown and began to live by myself in Tokyo to pursue my career as a musician. My partner was the…Tokyo4 min readTokyo4 min read
Feb 17Living by Myself in Tokyo hr663When I left my hometown for Tokyo and started living by myself there in the mid 80’s, quite a few second-run theaters for movies still remained. Those theaters showed two or three films at the price of one new film. The best experience of mine was when I saw ‘Top…Tokyo4 min readTokyo4 min read
Jan 20My Travel hr662A trip can require an enormous effort. In my case, it starts by making time to plan in a hectic daily life which consumes me with work. Once I manage to find time for planning a trip, a long way to finish it awaits. I search all over the Internet…Travel4 min readTravel4 min read
Dec 17, 2022The Survivor hr661A small plane was landing on a runway. Beyond it was a blue ocean with white wave crests beneath a cloudy sky that was beginning to be cracked and show a glimpse of the blue sky with a ray of sunlight. That was what I was gazing blankly at through…Airports3 min readAirports3 min read
