There's a fair amount of angsty discussion, in newspapers and blogs, about the state of science in society. One claim is that too few yo...

A city in rain and same city in sunshine is so utterly different you'd not think it was even the same place. Don't let your first im...

I'm off to a three-day conference in Sendai tomorrow. The conference itself promises to be fun, though of course the presentations will ...

I'm finally done with "The Devotion of Suspect X", with the murder exposed, guilty parties behind bars and all the rest. It t...

Osaka has a "water festival" of sorts right about now. It's a series of events and happenings along the canals and rivers in t...

I'm really going to cut all political posts for a while, I promise. We've got the Japanese upper house election next July and the S...

Some pictures I take end up as illustrations on this blog. But many pictures just don't make it into a post and they end up unused. So h...