| Date and Place of Birth: | August 26, 1963; Osaka, Japan
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| Got PhD degree in: | 1992 at Kyoto University
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| Working at IMSUT since: | 1999 (as an assoc.prof.; professor since 2003)
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| Basic research interest: | Developing computational methods for interpreting genome sequences
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| My most popular papers are: |
- Nakai & Kanehisa, Genomics 14, 897-911 (1992): about the first version of PSORT (1111 times cited),
- Nakai & Horton, TiBS 24, 34-35 (1999) (1102 times cited),
- Nakai & Kanehisa, Proteins11, 95-11 (1991) (419 times)
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| Some of my favorite literary works (authors): |
- The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky),
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck),
- The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann),
- The d´Artagnan Romances (Alexandre Dumas, perè),
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| Some of my favorite novels (translated): |
- The Honourable Schoolboy (John Le Carré),
- Calamity Town (Ellery Queen),
- The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler),
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, jr),
- The Hornblower series (C. S. Forester)
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| Some of my favorite Japanese authors: |
- Hideo Kobayashi,
- Hidekazu Yoshida,
- Kaoru Takamura,
- Ryo Hara
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| Some of my favorite paperbacks (authors): |
- Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer),
- The Pelican Brief (John Grisham),
- Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton),
- Hannibal (Thomas Harris),
- The Deceiver (Frederick Forsyth),
- The Green Mile (Stephen King),
- The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
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| Some of my favorite movies (directors): |
- Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming),
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan),
- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet),
- The Third Man (Carol Reed),
- Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle),
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock),
- Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean),
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick),
- The Damned (Luchino Visconti),
- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppla),
- The Sting (George Roy Hill),
- The Last Emperor (Berbardi Bertolucci),
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
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| Some of my favorite composers (a representative work): |
- Johann Sebastian Bach (the six sonatas and partitas for violin, BWV 1001-1006)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, op.111)
- Johannes Brahms (String Quintet No. 2 in G major ("Prater"), op.111)
- Franz Schubert (Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D.959)
- Anton Bruckner (Symphony No. 9 in D minor)
- Antoníin Dvořák (String Quarted No. 12 in F. ("the American"), op.96)
- Gustav Mahler (Symphony No. 9 in D major)
- G. Fauré (Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115)
- Maurice Ravel (Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67)
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| Some of my favorite painters: |
- Paul Klee,
- Georges Braque,
- Gustav Klimt,
- Claude Monet,
- Henri Matisse,
- J. M. W. Turner,
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn,
- André Derain,
- Georges Rouault,
- Taikan Yokoyama
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| Some of my favorite French restaurants: |
- L'osier
- Joël Robuchon,
- Quintessence
- Aimée Vibert,
- Édition Koji Shimomura
- L´Assiette Blanche,
- Mona Lisa (Ebisu),
- Aladdin,
- Petit Point,
- chez tomo,
- Ohara's
- Tateru Yoshino (Shiba)
- Cuisine(s) Michel Troisgros
- Hôtel de Mikuni
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