BASEBALL GAME IN JAPAN

On the last day of the Golden Week (one of the longest national holidays in Japan), I went to watch a baseball game. The game was so exciting, and luckily we could get the front row in left outer field. The game was totally controlled by a team, Softbank Hawks, but we could watch many hits and runs. Unfortunately there wasn't homerun in the game; however, there was one liner shot right in front of us! The net was tumbled so hard that you can never feel it by just watching through TV.

One of things you can find in Japanese baseball is supporters. In the outer field, funs filled with the outer field and cheers players. And amazingly, they have certain way to cheer each player. So if there are 9 players, they sing (cheer) a song for each player in different way. So here, I thought that Japanese baseball teams do not need to hire their cheerleaders, because supporters are more than enough to do that.

I recognized one thing, even they look just normal in town; however, they are really into and excite with the game in the stadium, makes them great well-cooperating cheer-leaders!!!

TOKYO TOWER!!!

Second time in my life to climb up to the Tokyo Tower. The height is only 333M though, it used to be the highest building in Japan.





But still, the view from the window to look down the street way below my foot was very scary... (@o@)/~~~





Unfortunately, the view on the outside was not good because of clouds... but, still, looking down on those skyscrapers surrounding the tower was spectacular!!!



This is way better than the view from my house's top terrace.. If you know
better or even just nice view in the world, just drop me a line please :-)

La Folle Journee au Japon

There was a Bethoben cerebration in Tokyo recently. That fiesta was biggest
one in my life. More than 2000 PRO-musicians from all around the world
gather at the place, and they play musics. Some time they do in a huge hall,
other time, you can see them right in front of you.

There, I was really inspired by classical musics and reminded me that
classical musics facilitate your brain when you study something. There are
many articles about it; (classical) musics helps memory. At this time,
actually I felt was that I couldn't stop thinking about ideas about
research. Such as, those musicians who has absolute hearing may use the same
area of brain where people usually use while they talk. Or, I even think
about deja-vu, why they feel the weird sense that they cannot remind/never
experienced before; however, they FEEL that they have experienced before.
etc...

Well, probably I will talk about those in the near future, definitely
classical music works!!! As I remember, I was listening to music when I
studied hard when I was high school student, and it worked well that time.
So, at least, it works for me :-D

So, why dont you try?!

RIKEN's Open Day on Apr. 23rd

RIKEN's Open Day.

Maro with Dave (the doll with brainwave cap; subject's appearance in my lab)

There was a RIKEN's Open Day (to the public), where I work. At the party, we introduced what we are researching. And I wore a cow gawn which I wear for experiment, and introduced Dave, the guy next to me in the pic. The Dave represents subjects' style when they undergo our MEG (megneticencephalography) experiments with EEG(electroencephalography; aka brainwave) cap.

Finally in Tokyo

Hey hey hey,
Finally, The Maro has come back to "Tokyo"!!! :P If you know The Rock, famous American wrestler, you will understand this phrase... jejeje.

Anyway, seriously, I moved to Tokyo. Here is very comfy for doing everything except looking at Mt Fuji, until a couple of months ago...

Now, I moved to this place, and one of the cool thing at this place is that I can take a look of 360 view from the top of my apartment because my room is penthouse in the building!!! I will show you the 360 world from my penthouse on a cloudy day :(
Attention! even though the place is penthouse, it is only 4 floors plus one for this sight viewing floor :P I just can climb up from my room on 4th floor.

You can click each frame to see larger pictures :D



Well, it looks way better no night time, especially in the first picture direction, where you can see several tall buildings. The tallest in the pic is so-called "Sunshine 60". It used to be called tallest building, but not today.

I hope I can update similar pic during the night. Having a glass of cognac smoking, looking at those nice beauty skyscrapers is my favorite moment now :)

As you can see (imagine), most shops are located on the bottom of those buildings, just 10 min walk from my room. That was never happened in the US before (Oregon/Virginia) except New York...

My second life in one of the biggest city has just started. I'm excited!!! I just need visitors to my place! Shall we drink at my penthouse apartment!? :D