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Category Archives: Me
Donald Richie
My first encounter with Donald Richie, who died earlier this week at the age of 88, was a pleasant surprise, since it was he who approached me. In late 1995, about a year after I started my Media Mix column … Continue reading
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Fuji Rock 12
I’ve attended the Fuji Rock Festival every year since 1998 and worked for the Fujirockers web site every year since 1999. I won’t say this year’s was the best but it was definitely the most fun I’d had at the … Continue reading
Levon Helm changed my life
The Band was the first rock group I paid any close attention to. While growing up in the 1960s I was as obsessed with AM radio as any other white suburban American kid was; or maybe even more so. At … Continue reading
Fountains of Wayne play to the choir
Yesterday I attended the first of Fountains of Wayne’s two-night stand at Ebisu Liquid Room in Tokyo. Though not sold out, the show was suitably packed to provide the sort of sweaty love-in the group tends to enjoy from its … Continue reading
Media Mix, Feb. 19, 2012
Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about changing attitudes toward hospital care for terminal patients. In the column I only used the statistics I needed, but the issue is quite interesting in what it says about the government’s approach … Continue reading
Posted in Me, Media
Tagged Health care, Home care, hospice, National insurance, NHK, Nursing
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Anniversaries
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Hotel New Japan fire, which killed 33 people. It is also my 30th wedding anniversary. Here is an excerpt from a letter I wrote to a friend some years ago describing that day. … Continue reading
Seidensticker’s Tokyo, and ours
Several years ago while writing a column about life in Tokyo I realized how little I really knew about the history of the city I had lived in since 1994 and worked in since 1986. On Amazon I sought Edward … Continue reading
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Tagged Asakusa, Donald Richie, Edward Seidensticker, Japan, Kabukicho, Paul Waley, Sanya, Shinobazu Pond, Tokyo, Yoshiwara
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The end
Seems like a good idea to start with an ending. Yesterday I signed off on my last movie reviews for the Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune, for which I’d written since 1996. This, in fact, is the second time I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Me, Movies
Tagged Angus MacLachlan, Asahi Shimbun, Edward Norton, Frances Conroy, Jim Morrison, Johnny Depp, Milla Jovovich, Robert De Niro, The Doors, Tom Dicillo
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