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Hit by Norovirus
Looking up from the window of my sickbed, the depth of a clear sky on a mild winter day I was hit by norovirus. In the early hours of the 17th, I was suddenly struck by stomach pai…
10 Years Since Then—the Great Hanshin Earthquake
Ten years have passed; clouds rise into the deep-blue sky of an Indian-summer day. 10 years ago, on January 17, I was in Tateshina, Shinshu. I owned a small ramshackle house and wa…
Being Conscious of Death — 60 Years after the War, 10 Years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Thoughts on the Chuetsu Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami —
60 years have passed since the war, and people who do not know war now make up most of the population. In peaceful Japan, as long as one lives an ordinary life, being conscious of…
Pure White Clouds at Dawn
At dawn, pure white clouds— Theoria. The days I cherished are buried in frozen ground. Theoria 【theoria ＜ Greek】 【Philosophy】 Apart from practical involvement, the intellectual per…
On a Short Winter Day, a Long Shadow Walks the Path
On a short winter day, walking the path, my shadow is long. It is still early, yet the shadow is already this long.
Words Scatter, and Bare Trees
Words scatter like leaves; bare trees stand cold, and I remain standing in the winter grove. Walking through the city, I notice that the ginkgo leaves have fallen before I knew it,…
A Recommendation for Wordplay
How wonderfully lovely it is that lovers exchange poems by mobile phone. I am enraptured. (Floating Island 2004/11/28) Exactly. Mobile phones are often treated as enemies, but from…
In the Cold Wind
Lunar calendar, October 16: when I went outside in the evening, a full moon was floating above the trees.The surroundings were already dim, and the moon floated there, pale and rou…
The Troubling Decline in Japanese Language Proficiency
A survey by Professor Hiroshi Ono (communication science) and others at the National Institute of Multimedia Education, an independent administrative agency in Chiba, found that un…