Essays and Columns on the web:

In Japanese

* West coast Report 9 "Broadband or DVD?" [on ZDNet Japan] Dec 20, 2001
* West Coast Report 8 "E-tailers' Holiday Season -- a little different this year" [on ZDNet Japan] Dec 5, 2001
* West Coast Report 7 "Xbox and removal of Microsoft shop in Metreon" [on ZDNet Japan] Nov 20, 2001
* West Coast Report 6 "Anthrax and IT" [on ZDNet Japan] Nov 6, 2001
* West Coast Report 5 "eBay still shining" [on ZDNet Japan] Oct 22, 2001
* West Coast Report 4 "Stars and Stripes after Sep 11" [on ZDNet Japan] Sep 27, 2001
* West Coast Report 3 "Latino and Mission of San Francisco" [ZDNet Japan] Sep 11, 2001
* West Coast Report 2 "Loft For Rent" [on ZDNet Japan] Aug 27, 2001
* West Coast Report 1 "After El Dorado of the Internet" [on ZDNet Japan] Aug 17, 2001

* "Area Studies" of GEO [on GEO] Feb, 1997

* The Atlantic and the fortune of the New World [on MSN Journal]
* The Atlantic and the fortune of the New World [on GEO] Jan, 1998

* Chile: Haunting of Pinochet's dictatorship [on MSN Journal]
* Chile: Haunting of Pinochet's dictarship [on GEO] June, 1999

* 18 intellectuals on "Daikoukai" [on GEO] June, 1999
* Europe Europe -A story of a Jewish boy- [on GEO] March, 1999
* Introduction to "Kamigami no Houkai"written by Sakai Tanaka [on GEO] Dec, 1999