‘5- Various / All Others’ Archives
Yu Darvish still in negotiation with Texas Rangers
Yu Darvish is really an expected pitcher in Japan. He debuted in the national high school games in Japan, and after joining the pro-league he never failed to show his guts in pitching and the results were always amazing each year. Personally, among the Japanese players in American major league teams, I think Hideo Nomo and Darvish are [...]
Homare Sawa, captain of Japanese women soccer team, got MVP of 2011 by FIFA
Homare Sawa got MVP prize by FIFA for 2011. It's a nice news for her and football fans in Japan, too. It's a little strange that she is now a very famous football player in spite that there hardly were Japanese people who knew her before the world cup of 2011. But it's a beautiful story to know how she got today's fame. In Japan, women [...]
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, A true beaty of music
Ryuichi Sakamoto is one of the best composers of Japan. Probably he and Joe Hisaishi are both admired highly by all Japanese people. Ryuichi Sakamoto's works are really touching in our heart and its range is really wide. Some may remember that he used to be a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, which was the first active Japanese band also in [...]
Once again Hikaru Utada !
There is one thing I regret about Japanese music scene today. Many of new Japanese artists recently have less impact compared to the time of 1980 to 1990's. Back then, new artists were competing their new breaking fashion, new song style, and totally impressive personal talent of music. It's a little strange to see many past artist, now [...]
Ancient music of Japan, Gagaku
In the ancient time of Japan, people among aristocrats enjoyed original music of Japan called Gagaku. Especially in Heian Era ( late 8th century ), when was a prosperous time for aristocrats called Fujiwara Clan, it's a luxury entertainment. As you hear, this is a very strange music with super unique melody by amazingly old time musical [...]
Akira Kurosawa and Takeshi Kitano
For movie fans, probably Akira Kurosawa is the most famous director among Japanese directors. Also recently Takeshi Kitano became popular with totally unique approach to movie fans. When Akira Kurosawa was still alive, these 2 masters talked about film making and their life. As you see, Takeshi Kitano also looks young and his face is still [...]
Who would be next American President ?
Today news said New American President race started in the USA. When Obama became President of the USA, he shouted again and again " change ! Yes, we can ! " ....but did he change anything better ?? I don't know what's really going on in the USA as staying in Japan. But hearing a lot of depressed news from the USA, I also think the USA [...]
My trip in 2012
I live in a forest resort area of Japan. It's filled with fresh air and seasonally changing beautiful colors. This year, 2012, probably I don't travel overseas. I traveled a lot of times to some other countries, while I now want to look more around my country Japan. It may mean I want to know where I'm really from. It's apparent I'm [...]
Kazuyoshi Saito breaks more in 2012
I like Kazuyoshi Saito' songs very much. He is ( I think) 45 or so now. He has long career in music scene in Japan, but actually he came to be known well in last several years among people of Japan at his age after 40. It's really late for a Rock musician as most of them have peaks at their 20's or 30's and many of them become out of [...]
Joe Hisaishi Paris Concert
Joe Hisaishi gave a concert in Paris in June this year, 2011. I didn't check if the concert was good or not. Recently I found many videos on YOuTube, and it seems to have been an extremely nice one. Looking at the video, easily we notice that many are enjoying it with much emotional move. Thinking of myself back in 1980's when [...]
