With a suggestion from a brilliant editor to consider re-framing my book as a prescriptive nonfiction, I started reading many that seemed informative in the process. I remembered the controversy around Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (2011), but it was only one of the seven books I picked up from the […]
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on December 19, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. 「All’s well that ends well」is a title to Shakespeare’s play, but it’s used like an idiom especially around this time of the year. One of the special things about being
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on December 5, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. Have you ever heard of a concept called “Music of the Spheres,” a.k.a. ”Harmony of the Spheres”？              In ancient Greece, they thought that everything that moves generates sound. Planets move,
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on November 21, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. I attended two wonderful conferences earlier this month: On Nov 4th, US-Japan Council Tenth Annual Conference in Hollywood, and then on Nov. 7th, the sixth annual “Women’s Leadership Counts” conference
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on November 7, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. I visited the Kingdom of Bhutan, a Tibetan Buddhist country in South Asia. I’ve been curious about the country whose government’s guiding philosophy policy is GNH, Gross National Happiness: not
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