Next week, I will go to ski trip with my friends. The most interesting part of this trip is that the member consists of international people : Japanese instructor Iranian Chinese American Good. I love international atmosphere. In addition,…

The other day, I went to Portland to renew my passport. I can do that in USA. I went to a few excellent domestic coffee shop and the largest bookstore in the world. The name of the bookstore is "Powell's books". The bookstore occupies one …

What is understanding? What is explanation? I finally find an answer : "structure with importance". Explanation means show your interpretation of essence of knowledge of theory with its context. It seems that a lot of clever people can do …

Sometimes we lost important person in our lives. I also know people who passed away while they are young. One of the most shocking accidents for me was about a famous scientist whose name is Paul G. Silver. His accident was tragedy. I cann…

Maybe, I learned how to play shogi when I was 2 or 3rd grade of primary school. Since then, shogi was one of my important hobby until I was high school student. Shogi is Japanese chess like board game. Shogi is computationally more difficu…

The other day, I received a paper from my advisor. The paper was written by a professor whom I met in Japan. In order to make progress in research, I need to read the paper well because the methodology written in the draft was expected to …

How may people can predict the day come when he play in Koshien Stadium as a pitcher when he was a high school student? Ichiro ties Rose's record for most 200-hit seasons He tied Pete Rose for the most career 200-hit seasons on 23, Septemb…

I am (heavy) twitter user. Twitter help me to collect information though most of sources come from Japanese. Twitter is useful tool for simple discussion in Japanese. Japanese can contain more information within the limit of twitter than E…

Thanks to the advancement of technology, we can enjoy SNS services with a large capacity of storage. We can share your daily photos, movies and diaries. Facebook is currently world wide standard SNS services, especially for people in unive…

The other day, Ryoko Tani, one of the famous Judo athletes in Japan won the Summer 2010 House of Councillors election. She is commonly known as 'Yawara-chan'. Since she won the International Women's Judo Championships in 1990, she has been…

They say: There are two types of people in the world i.e. people who are good at creating or people who are good at criticizing. Good scientists should have both aspect. However, I still think this would be an appropriate category of peopl…

These days, I often notice that history of country affect overall personality in society. Personality vary from people to people. On the other hand, some "common" aspects of people in a culture does exist. If you consider the origin of the…

These are often addressed as almost similar things. In fact, a few professor of my former department obtained PhD in science departments. Technology must be based on science. Therefore, Japanese sometimes do not distinguish them though the…

It is often said that Japanese do not want to take risks. If an entrepreneur fails in Japan, they cannot try business again. As students can expect good education even in Japan, only a few students apply to graduate schools in USA. If you …

Do not worry. I never commit crime. The story begun when I was a primary school student. When I was as old as my adviser's children*1. At the time, I believed that the meaning of penalty is for punishment. However, basic concept was "educa…

These days, a larger judicial reform project become a lot of news in Japan. I would like to introduce what is happening about judicial reform. Law school "The old Japanese bar exam" is one of the most difficult exams in Japan. As I wrote b…

I often regret my bad custom when I was a junior high school student. One of the worst my custom at the days are:I did not read so much English.That was very important custom for English learners. Even if you get used to speak English, you…

"Japanese entrance examination" Can you imagine what it is ? It is very competitive like "the Imperial examinations" in China. In USA, the most important thing for academic carrier is the final schools or degree. However, that is the resul…

A few days ago, a free journalist was released after kidnapped in late March. Kosuke Tsuneoka, 41, said on his Twitter account his abductors were not Taliban after his release. Taliban was thought that they conducted this issue but it was …

When I was a junior high school student, I misunderstood about advancement of science. At the time, i liked to read biographies of scientists. When I read such biographies, I thought the advancement of science is done by outstanding inspir…

These days, the society is rapidly changing. The speed of change seems to be maximum in information technologies. I would like to write about the changes which I met before. 1) Monitor When I was a junior high school student, my parent bou…

1Q84 BOOK 2作者: 村上春樹出版社/メーカー: 新潮社発売日: 2009/05/29メディア: 単行本購入: 40人 クリック: 432回この商品を含むブログ (925件) を見るHaruki Murakami's latest novel.English version will be available in 2011 Since Kobe earthquake a…

“本当の報酬 (True reward)” by 為末大 (Dai Tamesue) The world of experts are highly competitive. They cannot survive only by talent. Strict self regulation or unthinkable continuous effort is highly required. Their physical and mental effor…

The other day, my advisor said, "I guess that a lot of people are eliciting about the victory." Of course, he was saying about World cup. These days, every body are trying to see the game on time. In order to avoid students going outside o…

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…

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…