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Get Angry, Japanese People
—A Ten-Trillion-Yen Tax Increase, but Only Seven Trillion Yen in Government-Bond Reduction: Are We Going to Let Them Keep Making Fools of Us?— As a result of the Liberal Democratic…
Pavane of Tranquility
—Mie Saito Marimba Recital: A Wind from Gaul— The Pavane was like Gould. Notes played with soft mallets, without rolls, dissolved one by one into the space of the wooden church bef…
The World of Kazuhiko Koyama: A Concert of Works by Kazuhiko Koyama
It has already been some 7 years since I first encountered Koyama’s music. At that time, it was performed amid works by various composers and its contemporaneity was emphasized. Bu…
Stradivarius Summit Concert
Having recently become rather star-struck, after the 3 Great Tenors I went to another extremely star-struck concert: the Stradivarius Summit Concert. The concert was a project that…
The 3 Great Tenors in Tokyo 1996
I went to the concert by the 3 Great Tenors at the National Kasumigaoka Stadium—the concert whose most expensive seats cost 70,000¥5,000. Since my wife was not feeling well, we too…
Is a Weak Yen Something to Celebrate?
The Strong Yen and Income At the beginning of 1995, when the yen suddenly strengthened, business leaders spoke of “hollowing out” and the like as if something truly disastrous had…
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