I gave a presentation at my home department at Kyoto university this week - I normally work at NAIST in Nara as I'm collaborating with a...

I've never met Ozawa, I have no background in Japanese politics and I have never studied political science in my life. Take this - and a...

The man who just keeps bouncing back over and over again after everybody thinks he's gone - no, not Jason , Ozawa - may really be gone t...

The Japanese Language Proficiency test results are in, and as expected I failed. Like last year , and like the year before that . The test w...

Ritsuko woke me up at dawn, telling me it's snowing - not a few pathetic flakes, but a real snowfall that lasted all morning. It was den...

I got myself a new homepage landing page right here on Google sites. It's not pretty or anything - you can't alter the page format...

Contact Lenses : I've rejoined the contact lens brigade again, after a seven-year hiatus. I used, then gave up on contact lenses a few t...