• Princeton Diary :Astronomer's impressions of Princeton during 13 days

Self-assesment: ★中肉中背でスレンダーなボディーに身を包み， 天文学の第一線で活躍していて， アニメやＳＦが好きで，カラオケも唄え， お酒も嗜み，きわどい話もできる， 女性にやさしい不惑のナイスミドル．

Cool-assesment: ★風が吹いたら飛んでしまいそうで， 天文学界のヤッチャンと呼ばれていて， アニメイトに出入りするごっつアヤシイ， 歳も考えずに変な歌ばかり唄う， ノンベでスケベなただの迷惑な中年．

• "Urusei Yatsura"
• "Mobile Suit Gundam"
• "Naausica in the Valley of the Wind"
• "Top wo Nerae (OVA)"

• Comics by Siro Masamune (especially, "Appleseed", "Ghost in the Shell")
• Minako Uchida "Boom Town": Pop stories of debuggers in the virtual town BT.
  
• Of course, NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: Video on sale
  
• Yoko Kamio "Hanayori Dango": Comical love stories in the high school. TV show and anime were also made.
• Keiko Takemiya "Tenma no Ketsuzoku": Science fiction comic presented by the Japanese famous female writer.
• Yuki Hijiri "Lock the Superman": He returns! 'Mirror Ring' is now printed.

• Isaac Asimov "Foundation" series
• Arther C. Clarke "Space Odessay 2001"
• Komatsu Sakyo "Toward the end of the endless flow"
• Ryu Mitsuse "Ten billions days and hundred billions nights"

• Stephen Baxter "Timelike Infinity", "Ring"
• David Brin "Earth"
• John Cramer "Twistor"

Sake:
Beer is KIRIN lager, Sake is cold GINJO, Wine is white, Cocktail is kahlua milk, vodka base, and so on. That's are favorites.

Music:
I favor pops and anime music. My favorite artists are, e.g., Arai Yumi, Southern All Stars, JUDY AND MARY and others.

Video/Computer Game:
When I entered the graduate school, Space Invader became popular. Since then, I have been enjoying Video game, Famicon/Nintendo, Superfamicon/Nintendo, Sony Playstation (32bit game machine), Segasaturn (32bit game machine).

My recent favorites are as follows:

• Genso Suikoden(PS): This is an orthodox RPG game. But both the graphic and game balance are nice.
• BIOHAZARD(PS): This is an action adventure with great horror. This game is very unique and I play many times. Part II coming soon!
• DOOM(PS): Shooting, shooting, and shooting.
• Panzer Dragoon(SS): This is a shooting game. Fly feeling and graphic are nice.
• NEON GENESIS EVANGELION(SS): I keep this in order to play after I will see all the original animation.
• OverBlood(PS): This is also a horror-type adventure game.
• ALIEN TORILOGY(PS): Shooting game based upon the famous movie ALIEN. I do not clear this yet.

  

• Creature Shock(PS): Althought the CG animation is good, the controller balance is not so good.
• Sakura War(SS): Oh! I have no time to do this game, which may be expectable!
  This is wonderful, greatest, fantastic... Please read the Japanese page for details.

• Accretion disks, which are the prime mover of active phenomena in the universe.
• Astrophysical jets, which are ejected from the active galactic nuclei and penetrate into the intergalactic space, extending one million light-years.
• SS433, which is the peculiar X-ray binary showing twin subrelativistic jets with 0.26 light speed.
• Astronomy on the border between science and fiction such as Space colony or Starbow.
• Modern history of astronomy in Japan such as the rise and fall of the Journals or the history of the Astronomical Soceity of Japan or the Astronomer's tree in Japan.

Paper List

• "Astronomy II" for undergraduate
• "Space science II" for undergraduate
• "Earth science experiments" for undergraduate
• "Earth science experiments IV" for undergraduate
• "Astronomy experiments" for undergraduate
• "Astronomy seminar" for graduation thesis
• "Astronomy and astrophysics" for graduate course
• "Astrophysics seminar" for master course and master thesis
• "Hard seminar" for astronomy course (irregular siminar)
• "Discussion time on life" Thursday night (drink is required)

My several opinions on education (Japanese) are linked as:

• "Introducing sceince-fiction materials into physical and astronomical educations", Parity 2, 68 (1987)
• "Crisis of the astronomical education" Astronomical Herald 86, 75 (1993)
• "A method enjoying lectures" Parity 9, 55 (1994)
• "Astronomy minimum" Astronomical Herald 87, 496 (1994)
• "Learning astronomy with a personal computer" Parity 10, 73 (1995)

Article List

Visual Astronomy

Article List

Book List

Career (Japanese) is HERE.

Astronomical Institute HP

Tigaku HP