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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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on Sep 19, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. 「How many hours do you practice a day?」is one of the questions I get asked often. When a parent is asking in front of their children, obviously trying to encourage
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on Aug 29, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. One of my favorite saying in Japanese is “Suki koso mono no jo-zu nare (What one likes, one will do well).” I am surprised to learn, after a Google search,
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on Aug 15, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. “Smile and the world smiles with you”…Hinako Shibuno, a twenty-year-old Japanese professional golfer who has just won the Women’s British Open also won the hearts of golf fans all over
This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on July 18, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” Whether Leonard Bernstein actually said it or not is disputable, but the phrase attributed to