Features | My Eyes Tokyo

I think I became more independent after I came to the US.

2007-10-14

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Hiroko Nagaoka Contract Administrator of the American capital bank (She’s been in US since ’91) Hiroko Nagaoka is a really calm woman and she speaks very softly. In that sense, she doesn’t look like a person who are living in the US. But she’s been in the US for a long time and she has much experience working at American companies. A woman who has virtues of both Japanese and American people tells us about the differences in the working environment in America and Japan. *Interview in Orange County, California

Musical skills are not the most important thing for musicians.

2007-10-14

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Jinx_K_Miyao (Jinichiro Miyao) Drummer (He’s been in the US since 1998) After 5-hour flight from New York, I arrived in Los Angeles. I had the first talk here with a wonderful Japanese drummer, Jinichiro Miyao, known as Jinx_K_Miyao. What is the most important thing for musicians? Musical sense? Performing technique? Of course, those are very important, but he believes “humanity” is the most important thing for them. He says we can’t play music well without maturing as a person. *Interview in Little Tokyo *Edited by Daniel Penso 校正協力：ダニエル・ペンソ日本語

New York people welcome so many cultures and they treat you like others.

2007-10-11

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Arina Kuznetsova (Russia) Sales & Marketing Manager of a Japanese jewelry shop (She’s been in US since spring 2007. She’s been in Tokyo for 5 yrs) We interviewed Arina Kuznetsova after she finished her work that night. Now she is working at Kyoto-based Jewelry company in SoHo, Manhattan (*It has newly opened on 5th Avenue, Manhattan in November 2007). Before coming to New York, she worked for the company in Tokyo and she joined their activities of supporting foreign women’s life in Japan. She’s from Russia and has lived in three

When we walk on the streets, Harlem guys say “You are gorgeous!” even if we don’t put on makeup and look bad. It makes us really happy.

2007-10-11

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Kimiko Matsuo Coordinator/Graphic Desiner of Harlem Connection, Inc. (She’s been in the US since November, 2002) This is the second interview in New York. We introduce you a woman who works as Tommy Tomita’s right hand. Kimiko Matsuo is in charge of the Harlem tour booking, tour guiding and producing of tommytomita.com. Also she teaches Japanese language at a high school in Harlem. In addition, she is a member of the “Harlem Japanese Gospel Choir” and feels black people’s heritage with all her senses. This is a story about “Women, Harlem and New

I got shot twice. I faced countless holdups.

2007-10-11

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Tommy Tomita Representative of Harlem Connection Inc/Music producer/Organizer of Harlem Japanese Gospel Choir (He’s been in th US since ’85) My Eyes Tokyo bring you interviews with mainly Japanese people living and working in US. We’ve met four persons in New York and three in Los Angeles. Let’s explore their points of view on America. Now we introduce you to Tommy Tomita who has been in Harlem, the black people’s residencial area in Manhattan for about 20 years. He’s contributed to the community with donations and volunteer activities. Also he’s

If you’re trying to change something out of you, you spend your whole life on it. So it’s easier to change yourself.

2007-08-20

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Shoko Matsuda Export sales manager of a vegetable company (She’s been in the US since 2000) She looks very funny, doesn’t she? Shoko Matsuda is originally from Osaka Prefecture, western Japan. Generally speaking, Osaka people try to outdo each other with how much they can make others laugh. She went across the ocean and joined the vegetable trading company in Salinas, California as an intern about 7 years ago. Since then, she has been working as a “bridge” between Japan and the US. What has she seen and what has she

If you don’t do anything, nobody will give you a job.

2007-01-27

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Nana Hirsch Sound Engineer (She’s been in US since January 2001) This is our 1st episode of Japanese who live in abroad. Nana Hirsch left Japan to the United States about six years ago and she has worked really hard ever since to realize her dream. She looks like a little girl, but she is really tough. This is the special interview “My Eyes America”. *Interview in Yokohama *Edited by Daniel Penso 校正協力：ダニエル・ペンソ日本語 I can’t think about US easily like before I arrived in the US on January

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