‘5- Various / All Others’ Archives
YAMAHA PIANO as NO.1
For Piano players, the best piano in the world would be Steinway's. Bosendorferor some German piano could follwo Steinway's piano in the standard reputation. I also play the piano and recently it's becomeing to tell the difference of the sound. It took long time to taste the sound well. The reason for that is because I'm not a [...]
TOYOTA to Withdraw F1
After the financial crisis in the world, many car makers dropped its sales scale. Japanese car companies also faced serious recession inside Japan and in the world. Honda already announced the withdrawal from F1 race because of the fiscal problem, today also Toyota expressed termination of F1 participant. It means all the Japanese car makers [...]
Japan Air Lines’ future
Recently the biggest topic about domestic business is probably the reconstruction plan of Japan Air Lines ( JAL ). JAL has large amount of accumulated deficits. It's a national airlines that represent Japan, so maybe it's a hard decision for Japanese government to lead them to bunkruptcy although it was already privatized many years [...]
Japanese Ancestors are Jewish ?
Japanese Ancestors are Jewish ? This question is often heard in Japan. If you are not familiar to Japanese customs, you would make negative reaction. That's what most of Japanese do, too. However, with a little more quest on Japanese culture and history, you may have a different answer to this question. In Japan there are so many [...]
Internet Election may be introduced
Internet election system may be adopted soon in Japan. Japanese politics had a exciting and dramatic changing time 2 month ago by new diet member election. For spreading opinion or promotion of candidates, news paper or TV have always been the best and most influential method in the past Japanese election. Probably this is not that [...]
Nobuyuki Tsujii, the piano for healing and joy
I like playing the piano. Sound of the piano really makes me feel happy and smooth. Today, I listened to a blind person's piano play. His name is NOBUYUKI TSUJII, who won the 1st prize at this year's Van Cliburn Piano Contest. He is certainly a blind player, so he is supposed to have hardship before coming to this stage. If I look at his [...]
Ai Haruna Won the Beauty Queen ?!
Japanese transgendered girl, or girl looking gay, AI HARUNA, participated in "Miss International Queen Contest " in Thai held on 31st of October. And to our surprise, she ( or he ) got Grand Pix ! It means she ( or he ) is the most beautiful man in the world ! She ( I will call this person "she" here ) is now 37 years old and often [...]
JVC Victor Music Entertainment to be sold ?
Today's news says that Japanese old record company, Victor Music Entertainment, is treated for acquisition with a Japanese Game Soft maker, Konami. I'm a music fan, and also I have some very good friends working in Victor Music Entertainment. Some of them are top management class. Some months ago, I talked with one of them over beer. [...]
Ex President Bush Appeared in Tokyo with Koizumi, ex-Prime Minister of Japan
Today ex-US president, George Bush, arrived in Japan. He seems to have been invited by a Japanese public political party. He went to Tokyo baseball dome and pitched an opening ball as Japan series opening ceremony. Probably many people got surprised to see him on the pitcher's mound. His trip to Japan was not announced enough, I [...]
Takeshi Kitano or Beat Takeshi ?
When we see Takeshi Kitano's interviews like this video, we often have strange feeling about it. Maybe it's because we think Takeshi Kitano to be a comedian rather than a film director. There are many fans of KITANO films in Japan. They know both comedian side and director side of Takeshi Kitano. For me or people on the same age group [...]
