I'm a physics postdoc at the University of Wisconsin at Madison since Feb. 2005, after finishing my Ph.D program at the University of Texas at Austin. I've been involved in the IceCube neutrino telescope experiment and the STAR relativistic heavy ion collision experiment.

Family pictures from my trip to Japan in the beginning of 2006. From left, 3 years old Maya, myself, my younger brother Mune, 6 years old Hana (at the time), brother-in-law Kane-yan and my elder sister Yuki.

Aya, Mune and Yuki. Do we look alike?

Kaneko sisters. Hana with "Didgeridoo", the Australian indigenous people's music instrument. Because Mune plays Didgeridoo. Maya with her art.

Family pictures from my trip to Japan in the end of 2004. My mother, sister and her two daugthers, 2 years old Maya and 5 years old Hana (at the time).

My nieces are very cute and playful. They (especially Maya) love to do the funny faces which always make me smile.

My lovely friends from high school.

They just simply take me back to the time when I was a high-scool student and was curious about every pieces of my life.

I spend 6 years in Hanno, Saitama. I went to the Jiyu-no-mori (which means forest of liberty) middle and high school before I entered to the Science University of Tokyo in Japan.

The school was surrounded by woody mountains and there is also a river near the high school. Between classes, and of course often(?) escaping classes, my friends and I took a walk on a path through a small woods, a path to the river, with singing, talking and laughing. Those experiences strongly influenced me in many ways.

Pictures of my recent experimental projects. I spend a considerable amount of time making sweets when I was a college student, one or two cakes per week for years. I like to eat them of course but I love to make more than to eat.

Other projects.

I went to Ireland in Sep. 2005!

My friends has opened a "climbing gym & caffe, ISARA" at Kichijo-ji, Tokyo Japan since Nov, 05.

The cafe part of ISARA serves good foods too. ( http://blog.livedoor.jp/isaracaffe/ )

I spent about 4 years in Austin, TX for my Ph.D. study and I still visit friends there especially Mari-chan and Sawada-san's place sometime.

You will be surprized when you find this very good sushi in Texas!