So, it was announced today that this year's Nobel Peace price goes to Barack Obama, president of the United States. Let me be the first ...

Rain-drenched small temple. The cat had found itself a dry spot and wasn't going to move no matter who was taking his picture. Sendai is...

Shoichi Nakagawa, former LDP finance minister, was found dead in his bed today. He was 56 years old. He is the minister who showed up drunk...

A bit off topic, I know, but: I've long loved the ukulele. It's such an unassuming, friendly little instrument. I even started playi...

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 ...