To Know the Reason Why
To Know the Reason Why Nov – Dec 2025 We human beings often choose to act simply because we cannot immediately think of a reason not to. Yet thoughtlessness is…
AristotleWalks
I am building resources for those who wish to learn more about Aristotle and philosophy.
YouTube
an auditory library I'm building of interesting philosophy papers for students with visual impairments.
Ancient Greek philosophy excerpts or information usually with my own translations and photography.
Medium
I'm trying out Medium as a platform to post some thoughts I find interesting for my life and development.
About:
Hi, my name is Masako. I am Japanese and US-American. Born in Kobe, Japan, I was raised in the US (Boston, Pittsburgh & Princeton) and have lived in Munich, Germany for the last seven years.
In Beijing, New York, London and Istanbul, I have spent time studying or working. Each experience has exposed me to a wider variety of thinkers and taught me a great deal.
I was educated at Princeton University for my BA in Philosophy and my MA in Ancient Greek Philosophy at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, i.e., the University of Munich).
2020.03.18. On ‘hate’, ‘evil’, words. Dante’s Inferno, Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’.
Thoughts on a conversation with my friend discussing 'hate', 'evil', Dante's Inferno and Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. Photo of Hannah Arendt, a role model for me.
On Intelligence
My preliminary thoughts on in what Intelligence consists. Photo of Hope.
Ode from Oscar
One of my best friends, Oscar, who I have known for now over five years since our first semester at Princeton, wrote an ode to me 🙂
Life’s Purpose
Life’s Purpose March 4th 2025 I believe that people are suffering today, like in any other era, due to entirely preventable reasons. And I believe that the vast majority of…
Collective Responsibility: An Infographic
Post by Melanie Berman & Masako Toyoda. Collective Guilt vs. Collective Responsibility. Photo: Hannah Arendt & Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
the big-container-ed person
As always, I write for myself, but if this helps anyone, that would of course make me smile. The trigger of these thoughts is a conversation with a professor I…
2019.08. Panos
The wonderful, kind man I randomly met on the first day of my Greece trip, 2019!