Welcome to Trgr Lab.
I am Trgr KarasuToragara, an independent Japanese thinker and writer whose work emerged from the profound experience of losing my father to suicide in my early teens. Rather than pursuing traditional academic credentials, I have chosen to develop my thinking through direct engagement with life’s fundamental questions.
My work takes the form of exploratory essays and preliminary frameworks for scholars, philosophers, technologists, and practitioners to consider, critique, and develop further. I believe that personal experience, when carefully examined, can contribute valuable insights to academic discourse and social practice.
As Yuval Noah Harari observes, history accelerates faster than our capacity to understand it. In this context, I see value in creating moments of reflection—opportunities to reconnect personal experience with broader social and ethical questions.
Added on 2025/08/20
I am also participating in the following platforms:
https://codeberg.org/trgr
https://github.com/trgr-karasutoragara/
Why Academia.edu?
I publish on Academia.edu to contribute to academic discourse as an independent scholar. My work consists of exploratory concepts and preliminary frameworks that I hope will prove useful to those with formal research training and institutional resources. I offer these ideas as starting points for further development rather than as final conclusions.
My Current Areas of Focus
- Ethics and AI, including proposals for preventive ethics education using digital platforms
- Philosophy of Religion, exploring divine silence as a question of accountability rather than abstract theological theory
- Cross-cultural perspectives, bridging Eastern and Western approaches to meaning-making
- Practical applications, from AI-supported elderly education to narrative-driven resilience strategies
Where Else You Can Find My Work
- Substack / Medium / Amazon KDP / note.com (Japanese)
This includes a three-part memoir series on loss, anger, and healing.
About My Pseudonym
I write under a pen name as someone who has experienced suicide loss in the family. This choice reflects both personal privacy considerations and respect for cultural sensitivities surrounding such topics in Japanese society. My identity has been verified through official processes on both Japanese and international platforms.
I also publish essays on Substack and Medium. For example:
Three-part series on my father:
My mother’s biography and our ongoing work together:
My thoughts on the nature of apology:
I continue to embody the cultural capital inherited from my parents—who valued learning, ethics, and creative exploration—through my ongoing commitment to persevering without falling into despair in the modern era. Life is a process of continuously harmonizing contradictions and ideals, and learning feels much like taking a deep breath.
In everything I write, I aim to offer a quiet light for those who still feel.
You can find more of my works on my Amazon Author Pages:
Thank you for visiting Trgr Lab.
I hope this space serves as a starting point for meaningful exploration and dialogue.
“Questions before answers. Exploration before conclusion. Let’s think together.”