Hello everyone. My name is Takaaki Yoshikawa. I come from Osaka and live in Oslo, Norway as a legal expat. You might think “why did he move to Norway when they don’t even have better sushi than Japan?” It’s true, they don’t. But even so, I live in Norway and work for a Norwegian startup tech company called Vivaldi Technologies because I wanted to. When I tell my friends in Japan that I live in […]
As Jon is travelling in Turkey and has been sharing his impressions and pictures of the city, it reminded me of the time I spent there. Moving from Japan to Norway is so far one of the biggest choices I made in my life. Thanks to the situation where there’s no direct flight between the two countries, I took the chance to make a fun transit. I picked Istanbul. I’d never been to Turkey until […]
Yesterday, I met one of my friends who is learning Japanese. He thankfully downloaded Vivaldi and started setting it up after I recommended it. One of the first things he did was add https://jisho.org/ as a Web Panel. I’d actually seen the page before – yes, it’s one of the most popular Japanese-English dictionaries out there. I’ve seen some of my other friends using it. He wanted to look up the letter 矯, which I […]
Just another Vivaldi tip. When you download Vivaldi, it has DuckDuckGo as one of the pre-added search engines. In the address field or after calling Quick Commands, try searching something by starting the search term with “d “, and you’ll see the icon of DuckDuckGo (a duckie with a dicky bow). It’s one of the few search engines out there which allows you to use POST method (most search engines only work by GET method), and […]
Cute animal pictures is one of the most heartwarming things of which one can get a health dose on the Internet, IMHO. We had a visiter to the Oslo office today. I want to hire him to Vivaldi quite badly. AFAIK, Oracle Japan has had a culture to hire dogs for more than 25 years, since 1991. The current doggy (4th generation) is called “Candy”. Reportedly, Candy goes to work only on Wednesdays. (And I […]
I didn’t used to like traveling. At all. I felt like I was being kidnapped to somewhere unfamiliar and I preferred to stay safely in my home in Osaka. When I made the map above, the fact that I didn’t used to like traveling felt like a joke. “Then why have I traveled in 27 countries and in countless regions in the countries so far? If I just wanted to peep the world, I could […]
On a scale of 1 – 10 with 10 being the most positive, how would you describe your dinner tonight? If I were to score what I eat, I would say 7 is the highest score to what I can instantly put the perception into words, like “juicy” or “delicious”. André Breton once said, “Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.” Yes, from the scale 8, it needs to be convulsive. It […]
Seeing the northern lights was one of the things that I wanted to accomplish in my life. And four days ago, I finally did it in Reykjavik, Iceland! Expecting to see more, I went out again on the next day, and then… It was amazing. I’m wondering how poets would describe by words the beauty of the northern lights now, because I couldn’t help but get lost for words. … So I went out again […]
