I have no regrets in life, but there may have been times when I wished things had been different or better.
March 12, 2025
On the other hand, there are fools and villains like the employees of the Asahi Shimbun who are hurting Japan while making a big fuss and acting like they are above it all.
January 8, 2021
It is a chapter that was sent out on January 1, 2017.
In Japan, there are unique ways of saying things that you do on New Year's Day, such as "Hatsuyume" (the first dream of the year) and "kakizome" (the first calligraphy of the year).
This editorial is my kakizome.
Today's weather was fantastic, so I headed for Arashiyama with a friend.
Last year, I was most indebted to Arashiyama and the wild birds of Arashiyama in this season.
So I headed there to say thank you to the wild birds.
On the train on the JR Arashiyama Sagano Line, I listened to the song by The Walkmen that I had sent out today as a song of A Happy New Year to people worldwide, using my favorite world-class Sony earphones.
It changed from Rat to Heaven.
The year after I was completely cured and discharged from the hospital after seven months of hospitalization, I visited the Kyoto Botanical Garden 300 days a year.
I continued photographing the flowers, plants, and various creatures that bloomed every day of the year with the same eye as the painters.
Japan is proud of the world.
In many ways, this rose garden is the best in Japan.
I'm one of the most frequent visitors to this rose garden, but right next to it is the music club room of Kyoto Prefectural University and
I can always hear them practicing their rather good punk rock-style songs.
Sometimes I'd shout things like, "That's pretty good!
Keep up the good work, and make the best of it!
Come and talk to me when they make a song that is not inferior to The Walkmen and needs a singer.
I will sing a song that will make all the university students in Kyoto lose their legs.
I spent the money to build three mansions in Kitashinchi, Osaka, to sing John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, etc., with piano and band accompaniment.
In other words, when I thought that a man born to sing would sing as a singer as great as John Lennon and Bob Dylan, I almost burst into tears.
I have no regrets about my life, but it might have been better if it had been different or like that.
Even if it is the fate of humans to be born with a dying gene, a true genius like Mr. Seibu is living his life looking at life and death as they are.
On the other hand, there are fools and villains like the Asahi Shimbun employees, who are hurting Japan while making loud noises and putting on big faces, acting as if nothing is wrong.
It is because I was also thinking about things as I looked out the window.
