"Bushido: The Soul of Japan" by Inazo Nitobe

Just finished reading "Bushido: The Soul of Japan" by Inazo Nitobe, which is written in 1900. This book explains the way of samurai to non-Japanese people. The author was a scholar in education and lived in the US for decades. Have you ever wondered why Japanese people's way of thinking is different or crooked from any other cultures? I understand the culture better after I read the history of it on this book. If you like Japanese literature or manga or anime, you'll enjoy this book.

Sprited Away: 15th Anniversary Celebration!

Spirited Away: 15th Anniversary Celebration!🎉 Special screenings for just three days, and I was able to catch the last screening! I think that was the first time for me to watch the English dubbed version!

Aaaaaaa, that was sooooo really good! This kind of good movies make all the stresses in real life blow away to somewhere. Japanese animations are the best! 😆👍🇯🇵

Screenings of Princess Mononoke are coming up next month!

Of course I'm going to come back next week for the spin-off of Star Wars!

Japanese anime/manga shops in Little Tokyo!

I went to the very special part of Little Tokyo today. In the center of Little Tokyo, there is an area where geeky nerdy shops are concentrated. The area is really like Akiba. Akiba is a town in Tokyo. It started as a black market after the war and now is the nerd capital of the world. Imagine the nerdiest place on the planet and multiply by 10, that’s Akiba.

I love Japanese manga, animation, video games and what not, and I cannot think of a better place to see how popular those Japanese media culture got in the U.S.

Japanese things in LA!

Los Angeles is Japan.

OMG, I can pretty much find anything which I can only get in Japan in here. Sushi and ramen are very good quality and also I can get my favorite Japanese curry and pastries as well. I even found Daiso which is a big one-dollar shop chain in Japan.

The best thing I found was the LA Public Library Little Tokyo Brunch! Oh God. I thought I was going to die in joy. The place just have so many Japanese books including lots of manga! I can easily spend rest of my life in here!

Katsu-don!

Returned from Washington D.C.! I'm eating out in Boston! This is excellent Japanese pork cutlet rice bowl called Katsu-Don!

I'll go on diet tomorrow! Yep, maybe I said the same thing seven times this week but tomorrow is the day! Ha-ha-ha!

The video clip of the Japanese music concert.

If you have Facebook account, you can watch the video on the link below.

The Video Clip of the Japanese Concert at Kaji Aso Studio in Boston (May 1, 2016)

Japanese music concert!

A little Japanese music concert in Boston!

The Japan Society of Boston New Year Party!

I performed for the New year party of The Japan Society of Boston yesterday. It was the duo of Mika & Richard Stoltzman and I was supporting them with Hideki Hiromoto on drums and Emily Shibata on vocal.

New year is a big deal for us Asians and that was a big new year party so I was expecting that everybody would be shouting, drinking, dancing and partying hard. I thought we were going to do the background-kind of music. Well, lest we forget, that was not a usual party but a Japanese party. Everybody was siting down nicely and quietly, and waiting for us to play. When I saw the audience from the stage all sitting noiselessly, I was stunned because I was expecting completely opposite.

That was the first concert of the year for me and it was a good one. I have a feeling that I’ll be playing lots of good shows this year!