This is a review of a Japanese book co-authored by Mariko Yoshihara-Yang, Ph.D. and Rie Kijima, Ph,D., titled “世界を変えるSTEAM人材：シリコンバレー「デザイン思考」の核心,” published by Asahi Shinsho on January 30, 2019. It is a simple, and an important book, committed to getting right to the heart of its subject: STEAM educations and personalities. What makes it a page-turner is […]
This is an English translation of an article that was published in Nikkan San on February 7, 2019. It was a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. Alfred Adler, one of the founders of psychology along with Freud and Jung, said “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears
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This is an English translation of an article that was published in Nikkan San on January 24, 2019. It was a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The common query that often
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Nikkan San‘s column “Los Angeles’ Face” featured me for its 77th interview on Sat, Jan 19, 2019. Usually a one-page column, the editor allotted two pages for me: Page 1 on my general background in promoting music as a healing agent, and page 2 about my book regarding stage fright. MAKIKO HIRATA, pianist/writer: “The
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I am a pianist. I am a Japanese female professional pianist who likes to think about things. Like the fact that not so long ago “Japanese pianist” and “female professional” were oxymorons. Like how my grandparents during World War II could probably not have imagined that their granddaughter would go to the States in her
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