Yukio Mishima: Patriotism (憂国)
A masterpiece by Yukio Mishima – Patriotism – the story of love and dead. A short story about the double suicide of a Lieutenant and his wife following the Ni Ni Roku Incident where...
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Yukio Mishima – The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A masterpiece of modern Japanese literature: Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺). The fictional story about the very real arson attack that destroyed the Golden Pavilion in 1950. A bit...
Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human
Japanese authors have a tendency to commit suicide, it seems. I have read Ryunosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, at 35), Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, at 45), and also Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, at 39). Their...
TeXworksとptex2pdfの自動設定
TeX Live 2016は最近リリースされたから、日本語の環境によく使われてる「ptex2pdf」に対応してる設定を自動にTeXworksに入れてることになった。したがって、これまでに必要なTeXworksの設定は自動に更新されている。
Foreigners in Japan are evil …
…at least what Tokyo Shinjuku ward belives. They have put out a very nice brochure about how to behave as a foreigner in Japan: English (local copy) and Japanese (local copy). Nothing in there...
ハリー・ポッターとアズカバンの囚人 (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Yeah, another book finished in Japanese, the third Harry Potter book, Prisoner of Azkaban. Took me quite some time, but thanks to a good Kobo ebook reader and my own enriched dictionary reading is...
就職活動
昨日僕の大学の契約が切れてしまった。これまで６年半北陸先端科学技術大学院大学で准教授として務めていたが、新年度から延長されないことになった。従って、新しい勤め先を探しているー僕の年齢を見るとあまりよろしくない。５年の件を潜脱した先端大学へ感謝！
Searching for a job
Yesterday my contract with my university JAIST ended. I was working there as Associate Professor for 6.5 years, but the university decided not to extend my contract (financial problems, foreigner in Japan). That means,...
Switching from iOS to Android
This article starts a series of blogs on my ventures into Android land after having used iOS devices for 6 years. I have never been a strong believer in the Apple ecosystem, and my...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – refugees acceptance
Coming from a country that has taken lots of refugees, especially in the years after the second world war (although not any more), and while living in Japan still feeling connected to Europe and...
CJK fonts and Ghostscript: cjk-gs-integrate release 20160115.0
I have made a new release of , the script that searches for all kind of CJK fonts, and makes them available to Ghostscript (and if asked for also to TeX by linking). The...
