One of the things I long wanted to have in Japan is Ramen After coming back to Japan, I went to several Ramen restaurants. A restaurant near Ginkakuiji temple in Kyoto, for example, had been one of my favorite restaurants. After visiting N…

Cherry blossoms, Sakura, are now in full bloom Especially, those in the Philosophers’ Path, are lovely. I saw them after two years of absences. At this moment last year, I was busy searching for a flat in Oxford and just imagining the beau…

I went to Joseph Hardy Neesima’s grave with freshmen He was buried in the graveyard of Doshisha in the middle of the low mountain in the eastern section of Kyoto city. This would be my 22 times to pay respect at the gravesite of Neesima. A…

I had a chance to talk to freshmen at the closing ceremony of the orientation. The following is the transcript of my talk. *****Forty years have passed since I started university life. I also studied at a university in Kyoto 40 years ago! …

We had an orientation program for newly entered students One hundred and fifty. This is the number of freshmen this year. In the next four years, what college life they will have? In Oxford, college students will spend only three years wit…