Nowadays I got the secret to master languages. After studying the grammar, the only thing I have to do is to enrich the vocabulary. If we would like to read English books without any trouble, we should have a large vocabulary with 10,000 w…

I have three what-to-dos in my intellectual life. They are “reading”, “writing” and “mastering six languages.” In my case, “mastering” level is not so high because I would not teach the languages in the university. It just means “travel co…

Reading is “input”, and I think I should also make “output.” The output means “writing books.” There are about 30 authors of my favorite, whose books I certainly buy and read. Some of them write more than ten books a year. If one of my fav…

What I am strongly interested now is the direction of world future, especially on the economy, on the military, on the diplomacy, and so on. In brief, what I would like to study is “geopolitics.”

My intellectual life is based on “reading 1,000 books a year.” I keep all my books I have read so far in my private library. My private library, which is on a basement of my house, could keep about 32,000 books. It is very lucky for me to …