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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…
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…
Grassroots “tsunami fundraising” for the Sumatra earthquake is expanding. In Japan, the government’s contribution has drawn attention, while private donations have received little…
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…
I met Tokyo Governor Shintarō Ishihara at the Josuikai New Year’s reception. I was surprised by how very polite he was. He was quite different from the media image. He was in…
This may be sudden, but I am thinking of buying a car. Since the Mark II I used to drive was totaled (a truck that ran a red light at an intersection crashed into it, totaling it),…
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