I wrote a journal about cherry blossoms and spring. (http://goo.gl/2IGI6) This is a short and simple journal, but I tried to give it a deep meaning. In Japanese literature, cherry blossoms traditionally have symbolized beauty and death. Ch…

Kazuyo Katsuma wrote the article "A Proposal about the Nuclear Accident – We Should Stop a Risk Causing New Risks" on the website "REAL-JAPAN.ORG". (http://goo.gl/eW4FS) This journal is a comment on her article. We should think of two aspe…

I have read a critic about Haruki Murakami's short story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" and this earthquake in The New York Times. ("Super-Frog" By JOEL LOVELL March 22, 2011 http://goo.gl/ZiS6k) "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" is contained in his anth…

I've finish reading J. D. Ballard's books "Miracles of Life" (http://goo.gl/AAknC) and "Rushing to Paradise" (http://goo.gl/4isEa). Now I'm trying "The Kindness of Women" (http://goo.gl/uefzb). In my school days I had been taught how to un…

Today is Saturday. In the morning my wife and I went to golf school as we usually do on a Saturday. We met our coach for the first time since the earthquake. He was safe. After we got back home, we took a nap on the floor heating like two …

I go to the office and do ordinary work. And then after I go back home, I take a shower and eat dinner. I wonder if I should do such things. I'm filled with a feeling of powerlessness and rising a strong and sudden anger in my heart. I mig…

I went to work for the first time since the earthquake struck Japan. My office was completely unchanged. Nothing was broken. I began to do everyday work. I wonder if I should do such things now. I was filled with a feeling of powerlessness…

I wrote "I'm living in the surreal world now." in yesterday's journal. (http://goo.gl/FV0VH) When I watch the disaster area on TV, I feel that I'm living in the "surreal" world. But it I think it should be time to come back my own "real" w…

I'm reading J. G. Ballard's book "Miracles of Life". He was born in Shanghai and his family was captured by Japanese army in World War 2. He wrote about it in his novel "Empire of the Sun". His experience was real, but it was so severe tha…

My wife and I are safe at home now. Yesterday my parents, wife and I went to play golf at Omiya Kokusai golf course. When I finished a round of golf and went to a clubhouse, the earthquake happened. I saw the earth heaving like the ocean. …