In my blog, I often discussed difference of USA and Japan. Maybe, Japanese medical system is one of the most different things from that of USA. Medical system in USA is one of a severe reality for people in USA, the world leading country o…

Since the beginning of nuclear power plants, they become controversial in Japan like other countries. Unfortunately, development of nuclear power plants is advanced worldwide in order to reduce carbon dioxide. Currently, development of nuc…

折角先日プログラムのおかしいところと、テスト用プログラムとの微妙な差の原因を特定したものの、担当教官から”まだはっきりしたわけではないから”と、自分ひとり学会参加が見送られて絶賛凹み中です。おまけに先日受験した英語の試験もスピーキングが全く…

When I was a high school student, I could not imagine that I work as a seismologist. Fortunately, I really like current research. "Earthquakes" relate to the disaster mitigation. Therefore, the extent of knowledge sometimes affect lives of…

When I was junior high school student, Internet search engines are not so good. Around late 90's, there is not so many web sites and quality of search engines makes finding web sites difficult. After Google, everything has changed. A few m…

Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine. It was originally proposed by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, in which practitioners use highly diluted preparations. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by serial dilution with shakin…

Can we buy environment?Price of environment have been discussed for verifying. Some insist that environment is priceless and some believe environment have some cost. I think, environment can be estimated by cost. "Precious" can be evaluate…

I am not so interested in professional sports. I have, however, custom to check news about professional baseball games. My interest is very limited. "Whether Ichiro Suzuki had hit today?". Ichiro Suzuki, is a Major League Baseball right fi…

"Unrealistic" could be a key word to express some situation in Japan. 1) Unrealistic children The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is deliberating stronger regulations on publication which include content with sexual depictions of characters th…

時制が著しく不適切ですが、それはさておき。実は結構前からちょっと”病気かなー？”と思わしき兆候が出ていました。病院にいくかどうか思案していたのですが、やっぱりちょっと痛いなということで大学の健康センターに行くことにしました。健康センターとい…

If you know someone who can speak their mother tongue and your mother tongue, should you speak in their mother tongue? It is a tough question. If the person study our mother tongue as a foreign language, speaking in their language may spoi…

These days, influence of e-books by digital devices has been discussed in Japan. After release of iPad, the motivation of textbook was booming in consumer electronics industries. Merit and demerit are often discussed on twitter. Discussion…

It has been said that the animals have mind. To some extent, that would be true. On the other hand, it may not be like human beings. In my opinion, some part of mind of human being consists of what you learn in your life. Animals do not ha…

今日先日はクラスメートのＡさん（あのワンちゃんの飼い主さんです）の引越しということで、せっかくなのでお手伝いに行きました。Ａさん夫婦はちょっと遠めのこの辺ではプチ高級住宅街（？）にすんでいて、住環境自体はかなりよさげだったのですが、もう少…

Going to see movie is a popular recreation worldwide. I think I do not love movies so much. I still like to go to see movie or see movie at home. One reason is for fun (unfortunately, you cannot pursue "interesting" in movies), second reas…

The cover photo of TIME of this week was very shocking. A woman who lost her nose sit down on a floor. This was a tragedy of the woman who attempted run away from her husband and her in-lows. They abused her and she had no choice to leave.…

1)Handwriting CV Oh my holy God! Can you imagine "handwriting CV"? I cannot believe such ridiculous types of applications "widely" exist in Japan. People who strongly believe its existence insist that handwriting CV means that the applican…

"オレゴンブルー"という単語はどこで聞いたのかは忘れたのですが、ブルーベリーの品種のようです。僕は個人的にはオレゴン特有(?)の晴れ渡った空の色を形容する時に使います。オレゴンは基本的には春先と秋にかけてしとしとした雨の多い土地柄なのですが、地…