Ｇ２ Vol.09 (Jan. 2012)
I had a luck to spend some time together with this man, Wakadanna, in my childhood. That was a time when he started to reveal his charismatic character. I hoped that there would be something that only I would know and write knowing his old days, and started to work on his story.
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Kyoto Shimbun (Jun. 2011 — Nov. 2011)
ENEFARM LIFE Vol.5 (2011. Summer)
SHUKAN KINYOBI Vol.745 （03 Apr. 2009）
I met a young Tibetan lady Dorma(a pseudonym) in Thun, a city in central Switzerland. She said she was 18 years old, but sometimes she looked older, sometimes younger. She told me that she came to Switzerland in 2006. “Life in Switzerland is really like a dream, as the mountain here looks similar to Tibet and what is more, it’s free.”… I could see her strong nostalgia for Asia beneath her cheerful face. And when I was about to part from her, she asked me with a shy smile, “When are you coming back to Switzerland?” It was then that I realized the fact that she didn’t have a homeland to go back to.
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KYOSUMA! 2009 Spring Edition
Lots of big names have lived, studied, worked in Kyoto all the time in Japanese history. In this article, I tried to find traces of five of those Kyoto related celebrities, that is, Murasakishikibu (author), Mizuki Noguchi (Olympic gold medalist), Masaru Sato (ex-diplomat, author), Kitaro Nishida(philosopher), Toshihide Masukawa(physicist, Nobel laureate).
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CHUOKORON Feb. 2009
A lot of exiled Tibetans live in Switzerland. Its poplulation, around 3000, is one of the largest after countries such as India, the United States. Some of them came to Switzerland after fleding China together with the Dalai Lama 50 years ago, and others are still teenagers who have not had a chance to visit Tibet. Their generation and background varies widely, and even who sneaked into the country without being qualified as refugees are not very rare. “We can feel at home in Switzerland as this great mountain, the Alps, is here ”, said a man who runs a Tibetan restaurant in northern Switzerland. However, their home country is not here. They can not go back to their real home. A man who had worked for the exiled government and lived in Switzerland for more than 30 years shed a tear while he talked about the difficulty of fellow citizen in Tibet. An 18-year old girl showed her nostalgia for Asia behind her bright smile. A young man dreamed of the day he would be back in Tibet. The Alps, which they have in front of them, is beautiful.But the Himalayas lies far away.
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SHUKAN KINYOBI Vol.721 (3 Oct. 2008)
SHUKAN KINYOBI Vol. 709 (4 Jul. 2008)
CHUOKORON Jun. 2008
SHUKAN KINYOBI Vol.673 (5 Oct. 2007)
LINK CLUB NEWSLETTER Vol.142 (Mar. 2007)
First article of a series “Cross the Border”
On the bridge, I could only hear the sound of wind./I kept walking straight toward the green land of North Korea below the blue sky which had no border. I sometimes worried that I might get shot if I went too further, but I just walked towards the end. It was just a few hundred meters but I felt it like really a long distance…. I could only see green fields and hills around me. While I walked into the immigration office, I saw a vivid red painting of Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung behind a big dirty window, which made me realize that I’m on the North Korean soil.
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YOMIURI WEEKLY 11 Feb. 2007
Almost 2 minutes have passed from the start when Takeda applied cross arm lock to his opponent, Lu Xiebin. Lu was obviously suffering from the lock and he had to tap to finish the game. Takeda should have become a winner at that point and he jumped around for a second being convinced of his triumph. However, referee called for restart of the game. “Wei Shenma!? (Why!?)”, Takeda cried loudly to the referee with his arms highly raised above. Just his voice sounded in the stadium./ Takeda’s objection wasn’t accepted. And it was just after that incident when Lu’s hard right low kick hit Takeda. Lu knew it was a big chance for him and he didn’t stop his attack. He gave Takeda a swift left hook which made Takeda fall stright to the mat.
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BOSEI May 2006
“It is when I catch game that I feel happy, and it is when I can’t catch game when I feel unhappy,” said Goris Tapon, a 69 year old active “Lamafa”, a harpooner, who still keep hunting massive sperm whale in the traditional method. His absolutely clear words show the life of men in this village, Lamarela, Indonesia. / On the sixth day of my stay in the village, I got on a small wooden boat with these robust local guys to share their “happiest” moment…. When I took my eyes off the two dolphins, I was taken my breath away by the scene in front of me. Boundless deep blue ocean which reflected the strong sunlight was covered all over with a big herd of dolphins, which reminded me of a poster of a film ” Le Grande Bleu “.
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Check the amazing photos of traditional whale hunting in Lamarela here (article from dailymail.co.uk)
YOMIURI WEEKLY 30 Apr. 2006
SEKAI Sep. 2005
Married life with Lape might have not been always happy for Gian. Nonetheless, she loved this man Lape whom she happened to spend her life together with. Or, she might have just tried to love him, but anyway, they had given life to five children and lived together till Lape’s death. / Phopa, Lape’s granddaughter, remember Lape just as an ordinary man. She had heard about fragments of her grandfather’s past, but while she translated Gian’s words to me, she herself was often listening carefully to her grandmother’s story, sometimes with surprise, laughter and deep emotion. / Seeing Phopa listening to Gian’s words like that, I realized that Lape had been a grandfather, a father and a husband more than a Japanese solider.
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SHUKAN KINYOBI Vol.469 (25 Jul. 2003)
It is not the fact that matters, I just want to believe him(or his method), so don’t try to discourage me by telling that he is wrong, or bad. —-She should have thought like this, I thought, when I saw the word, ‘He is like God for me’ in her email. / Everyone has a time when he/she thinks that to believe can change something whatever truth is. I can feel her pressing feeling from the fact that she kept going to the stuttering cure institution in Tokyo from Kansai spending 420000 yen…. Good or bad of the method,or whether he is trying to cheat or not might not be a problem in this case. People who come here maybe just hoping that this place can make them believe that stuttering will cure.
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