17 Dec Donald Richie on Reading Noh Drama
Each note, each word must be savored, weighed, calculated, and then put again into context; the context and never the word alone creating the image...
22 May Japanese Doughnuts
With their outrageous cuteness, Japanese doughnuts will fill the hole in your stomach and your heart. From Floresta Nature Doughnuts, Kyoto, Japan....
22 Jun Pavaka in Japan
Canadian musician and meditation-rocker Pavaka Ritchot recently toured Japan as a part of the Songs of the Soul concerts, performing in Tokyo, Kamakura and Kyoto. Pavaka, a student of meditation teacher Sri Chinmoy, performs music composed by the late Indian spiritual master, and...
06 Jun Songs of the Soul Concert, Tokyo
Photos from the recent Songs of the Soul concert in Tokyo, Japan....
17 May Donald Richie’s The Japan Journals: 1947–2004
Article first published as Book Review: The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 by Donald Richie on Blogcritics. This is what every memoir should be. Unhindered by any attempt to be self-serving, Donald Richie’s The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 is about the most unflinchingly honest opening of the tightly turned lid...
17 May Wave of Beautiful Humanity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leG1I8GOW1Y Article first published as Bullet-Train TV Commercial Lifts Spirits in Japan on Blogcritics. Initially withdrawn because of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, a television commercial for a new bullet-train line helps a grieving nation dare to smile once more. mundaneusername: tearing up. Thank you. koy1: why...
01 May A Daughter’s Last Goodbye
In the face of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, words fail me. And fail me they should, for it is good to be speechless at the indescribable and the inconsolable, to be silent in the face of the inconceivable made real. Any...