When I buy a few books a month, I find myself buying more books than I can fit on my bookshelf.I had no choice but to arrange the books in front of each other, ...
When we say "square guy" in Japanese, we mean a serious, uninteresting, simple-minded person. The Lubic Cube, with its six uninteresting squares and six sides, ...
I don't remember when exactly I started doing this, but I try to heave salt.I seem to remember that I started by watching YouTube on feng shui or fortune tellin...
On May 8, the main branch of Sanseido Bookstore in Kanda Jimbocho, Tokyo, was temporarily closed.The reason for the closure was to rebuild the building, which o...
Some time ago, in Diamonds on a Line, Professor Yohji Yamaguchi of Daito Bunka University wrote that the country name "Japan" was named by the Chinese during th...
When I search for a book I want to read on Amazon, they often recommend the Kindle version if the book is in e-book format.If it's a book you want to read immed...
I turned 64 last week. I've already passed the turning point in my life. According to a report by Nissei Research Institute, the average life expectancy of a 65...
It has been exactly 75 years since Japan lost the war with the US and other allied nations. What was that war that caused so much suffering? It was with these t...
I think it was after reading Somerset Maugham's short story "The Breeze of the Leaves" that I began to long for the South Island. The short stories are called S...
