Caroline Kennedy at Imperial Palace
On Nov. 19, 2013, I took a friend from Hawaii around Tokyo and when we headed for the Imperial Palace,…
Yae no Sakura, NHK Taiga Drama 2013
This year’s year-long, weekly NHK Taiga Drama TV series will start airing tonight on Jan. 6. Titled “Yae no Sakura,”…
Mie Yamaguchi dies at age 51
Always sad to lose a fellow Japanese/English bilingual person. Still young too 山口美江. Here’s a video (no longer online) reviewing her career…
Swiss man walking across Japan
I would call it the ultimate travel adventure in Japan. A man from Switzerland, 44-year-old Thomas Köhler, is undertaking a walking…
The Toilet Goddess song
The song, Toire no Kamisama (The Toilet God or more accurately, The Toilet Goddess トイレの神様) sung by Uemura Kana (植村花奈)…
Video of “Megumi” kidnap victim
The current visit to Japan by Kim Hyon Hui, a former North Korean agent who planted a bomb which brought…
Real Geisha Real Women, Kyoto geisha film by Peter MacIntosh
I just saw a screening of my friend Peter MacIntosh’s documentary geisha film called Real Geisha Real Women at The Foreign Correspondents’…
Supermodel Sayoko Yamaguchi dies
I was shocked and saddened to hear that Japan’s one and only super fashion model, Sayoko Yamaguchi, died of acute…