This website covers the various activities and writings of Takashi Yogi.
Topics include articles, books, essays, poetry, music, communication, conflict, peace,
organic farming, health, movies, energy, Japanese Americans, Holocaust, democracy
4-23-2024
Questions? Email Takashi Yogi yogitakashi1942 at gmail
Website: tyogi.org
Published articles
My experience as a child in Okinawa during World War 2.
Look for New Ways to Solve Old Problems
There must be better ways to solve societal problems.
Account of my trip to Cuba to repair pianos.
My father's diary in Okinawa 1945
Books by Takashi Yogi (full text)
Alternatives to Conflict: Interpersonal/International
Alternatives to a right/wrong view of the world.
An introduction in 26 pages.
Essays and poetry in progress.
Essays
Word pictures of meaningful events in my life.
Democracy and the Internment of Japanese Americans
Lecture on democracy and its failure in 1942.
Letter to the New York Times about the Holocaust
How decent people commit atrocities.
Letter to the New York Times re Slavery
Remove statues of slave owners?
Activities
I am a retired medical electronics engineer. I majored in physics and taught myself electronics since age 10. I was a equipment technician in the biology department of UCSC. I repaired wheelchairs. I now manage a hobby farm on 10 acres in Garden Valley, CA.
School of Adaptive Agriculture http://adaptiveagriculture.org
I volunteer at this farm school in Willit. I teach industrial skills such as carpentry and plumbing to farm students. I also do repairs and construct buildings.
Radio Station KFOK 95.1 FM in Georgetown, CA http://kfok.org
I am the station engineer.
Saint Cecilia Society for the Preservation of Gregorian Chant
I am a member of a group of men that sing Gregorian chant in Latin on Sundays.
I authored a resolution approved by the California State Grange apologizing for discrimination against Japanese Americans https://rafu.com/2014/04/california-grange-apologizes-for-anti-ja-prejudice/
Book List
These are a small sample of books that I enjoyed or changed my life, in random order.
The Shock Doctrine ….. Naomi Klein
People's History of the US ….. Howard Zinn
A Fool's Progress ….. Edward Abbey
House of the Spirits ….. Isabel Allende
Grapes of Wrath ….. John Steinbeck
Epitah for a Peach ….. David Matsumoto
The Omnivore's Dilemma ….. Michael Pollan
Cat's Cradle ….. Kurt Vonnegut
Fahrenheit 451 ….. Kurt Vonnegut
The Food Revolution ….. John Robbins
The Jungle ….. Upton Sinclair
How Not to Die ….. Michael Greger
Consider the Lobster ….. David Foster Wallace
Farewell to Manzanar …... Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
All Quiet on the Western Front ….. Erich Maria Remarque
The Righteous Mind ….. Jonathan Haidt
Unbroken ….. Laura Hillenbrand
The Drowned and the Saved ….. Primo Levi
Freedom Road ….. Howard Fast
Les Miserables ….. Victor Hugo
The Brothers Karamazov ….. Fyodor Dostoevski
Maus ….. Art Spiegelman
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ….. Robert Heinlein
Golden Apples of the Sun ….. Ray Bradbury
Why I am not a Christian ….. Bertrand Russell
Candide ….. Voltaire
The Poisonwood Bible ….. Barbara Kingsolver
Letters to the Nation ….. Molly Ivins
Letters from the Earth ….. Mark Twain
Night ….. Elie Wiesel
A Wild Sheep Chase ….. Haruki Murakami
A Tale for the Time Being ….. Ruth Ozeki
The Emperor of All Maladies – Cancer ….. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hitler's Willing Executioners ….. Daniel Goldhagen
There's Nothing in the Middle
of the Road Except Yellow Lines
and Dead Armadillos ….. Jim Hightower
Fire Shut in My Bones ….. Charles Blow
Whole ….. T. Colin Campbell
Movies
Red Beard ….. Kurosawa
Twenty-four Eyes ….. Kinoshita
Midnight Cowboy ….. John Schlesinger
Yellow Submarine ….. Beatles
Remains of the Day ….. James Ivory
Sansho the Baliff ….. Mizoguchi
Dodeskaden ….. Kurosawa
Downfall ….. Oliver Hirschbiegel
The Go Master ….. Tian Zhuangzhuang
La Strada ….. Fellini
The Graduate ….. Mike Nichols
Winter Light ….. Ingmar Bergman
Dersu Uzala ….. Kurosawa
To Kill a Mockingbird ….. Robert Mulligan
Castle in the Sky ….. Miyazaki