Sadly, on Ishigaki Island, the white waves of the evening disappear into the distance. The flowers of the tinsugu bloom on the road to nowhere. Where is that person? The world will continue as usual.
Further display The Wandering RoadSuddenly I realize that it has been 14 years since my father passed away. He was probably much younger than me when he wrote these poems. "Mirai" Anthology of Deceased Poets (1990) Komeiji Minoru, excerpt by Akimura Isao Died on July 7, 4. He was XNUMX years old. Following on from Wagatsuma Yasushi's "Mirai Techo"...
Further display Isao AkimuraMaryna Mazhukhova is a pianist from Belarus. When we think of Belarus, we think of the Chernobyl disaster, and in her career, we can see her performing at the United Nations' 10th anniversary concert of Chernobyl. After Belarus, she studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York...
Further display Maryna Mazhukhova @ Carnegie Hall (2004-05-02)The concert featured Dawn Upshow as soloist, but perhaps the highlight was Te Deum laudamus (1965) by Georges Lentz (b.1999), whose New York premiere was held that day. The piece features cluster-type dissonances that are played in concert.
Further display Australian Chamber Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall (2004-05-02)I went to a concert held at the Isaac Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall in New York. As expected, the sound in this hall is excellent. The highlight of the concert was Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony. This symphony is rarely performed in Japan.
Further display Atlanta Symphony Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall (2004-05-01)Because of my longing, the flowers of Yoshino The heat haze reflects off them in a random manner The spring flows by. Reply poem: My heart is troubled by the spring rain The flowers of Yoshino village are just starting to bloom And they fall.
Further display "spring"
At the beginning of October, I flew back to Japan on a JAL flight from Zurich after attending the World Cimbalom Congress in Appenzell, Switzerland. As part of the introduction to Japanese music at the congress, there was an introduction to the Okinawan scale, and on the plane, a video of Kazufumi Miyazawa of The Boom visiting "shimauta" (island songs) was shown...
Further display Uncle HisaiBaghdad Burning A blog post about the Tikrit bombing by Riverbend on Iraq-related war, politics, and occupation. The surrounding articles give a glimpse into her daily life in Baghdad. She speaks English so well, she must be quite an intellectual? So, she's not anti-American to begin with...
Further display Is Baghdad burning?On the 25th, Democratic Party leader Kan and author Naoki Inose clashed over the privatization of the Japan Highway Public Corporation at a meeting to mark the first anniversary of the death of the late Hiroki Ishii, a Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives. Inose, who also serves as a member of the Japan Highway Public Corporation Privatization Promotion Committee, opened the debate. After introducing that Ishii was a proponent of privatization, he said, "Ishii's proposal should have been the Democratic Party proposal. The election...
Further display Suga and Inose clash over free planOn the 18th, the Socio-Economic Productivity Headquarters announced an international comparison of labor productivity in 2001. Japan's labor productivity (gross domestic product divided by the number of employed persons) was $5 (approximately 2408 million yen), ranking 786th among the 30 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This was an improvement from 19th place the previous year, but it was the lowest ranking among the seven developed countries for the fourth consecutive year.
Further display Japan's labor productivity ranks 19th in OECD