INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

I believe conflicts can be resolved with a ball.

2012-02-07

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Daisuke Ikenaga Part2 Playing manager of French baseball team We bring you the interview of Daisuke Ikenaga, a playing manager of the French baseball team called “Savigny Lions”. Now we tell you his activities as a bridge between Japan and France. – Daisuke Ikenaga – Born in Tokyo in 1980. He started playing the baseball in 5th grade. After he graduated university, he worked part-time and took team tryout tests. Moved to the US in 2005 he joined a team called “Japan Samurai Bears” there. After the US, he played

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French farm players were almost all amateurs. I wondered whether they could play catch well.

2012-02-07

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Daisuke Ikenaga Part1 Playing manager of French baseball team Have you heard of the “independent baseball league”? In Japan, there are independent leagues separate from the professional baseball. There are 4 leagues in Japan called respectively “Baseball Challenge League” “Shikoku Island League Plus” “Kansai Independent League” and “Girl’s Professional Baseball League“. Today we introduce you to a young baseball player who works as a bridge between Japanese independent leagues and a French team. Daisuke Ikenaga, a playing manager of the French baseball team called “Savigny Lions”. We met him through

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I love cooking and teaching. Teaching, making jokes, and having fun together – those all are necessary in my class.

2011-11-27

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi & Tomomi Tada Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Hassan El Masry (Egypt) Arabic cuisine chef/instructor (He’s been in Japan since 2009) The 9th interviewee of ”MET × Niki’s Kitchen” is Hassan El Masry, a man from Egypt. He has been successful as an Arabic cuisine chef for 33 years all over the world. Arabic cuisine might be a little unfamiliar to Japan because of its location. Probably you are interested in his class and cuisine in Niki’s kitchen. Surprisingly he used to be a belly dancer in Egypt! What we found through his cooking class

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If we have a future, I would be able to grow the business. I decided to gamble on that possibility.

2011-09-28

Interviewed by Isao Tokuhashi & Yu Nakamura Written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Reina Otsuka Entrepreneur Today we introduce you to the evangelist of Japanese eco-friendly lifestyle. Reina Otsuka, CEO of Ecotwaza. To sum up Ecotowaza works in a few words, “Transmitting lifestyle which Japan’s rich natural surroundings have nurtured and products that are associated with nature”. She makes overtures of “green living” to people across the world. She has a beautiful smile, she looks affable so she is working on eco-stuff… No, she is exactly the athletic type. She used to be a hard-core salesperson. According to

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We are voices. We are just narrating the world.

2011-08-19

Interviewed by Isao Tokuhashi Written by Tomomi Tada & Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   John Matthews (USA) Radio anchor & reporter (He has been in Japan since 2006) John Matthews – a journalist who usually broadcasts news coverage about Japan via NPR (National Public Radio), America’s non-profit media organization. “Voices have power, voices give us imagination”. He loves reading news and producing his podcast “The Japan Show,” a weekly discussion on news and views in Japan with his Australian expat co-host. John loves radio more than anything. What we could see in him through the conversation is that he

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Each person, each part of India is different. So I wanted people to see that.

2011-08-13

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi & Tomomi Tada Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Karen Pereira Gomez Indian cuisine instructor (She’s been in Japan since 2009) The 8th interviewee of “MET × Niki’s Kitchen” is Karen Pereira Gomez, an Indian woman from Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). Her character is a passionate and lively one that lets her enjoy exploring new things in the world. And in her class, we can see she is keen on teaching real India, especially her community which is very diverse and something new as well.Why is she like that? The key might be found in

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Niki’s Kitchen has strengthened family ties and has brought us closer.

2011-07-03

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi & Tomomi Tada Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Camila Furuhata (Colombia) Colombian cuisine instructor (She’s been in Japan since ’96) My Eyes Tokyo brings you interviews with teachers from Niki’s Kitchen. It’s a cooking school in which foreigners teach their homeland dishes to Japanese people. The 7th interviewee is Camila Furuhata from Colombia, who is gentle and has a brilliant smile just like an angel. We were the ones who got healed by her smile and couldn’t help asking her kiddingly, “Can we stay here and have dinner tonight?” Then she told me with a big

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My wish is to show what Serbia and the Balkans really are.

2011-05-29

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Jelena Jeremic (Serbia) Serbian/Greek cuisine instructor (She’s been in Japan since 2009)   My Eyes Tokyo brings you interviews with teachers from “Niki’s Kitchen“. It’s a cooking school in which foreigners teach their homeland dishes to Japanese people. This is a story about the first Serbian whom we met in our life: Jelena Jeremic, a young, cheerful, intelligent and humorous woman. She loves telling jokes all the time and she keeps the smile on her students’ faces during her classes. You can learn how to cook Serbian and Greek dishes,

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There’re many Israelis and Palestinians who overcome religious and racial differences and make friends with each other.

2011-05-11

Interviewed by Isao Tokuhashi & Mai Namiki Written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Kazuya Ogawa (Part3) Filmmaker We are bringing you the interview with Kazuya Ogawa, a film director who made a movie called “Pink Subaru”. The last part is the unique standpoint and ideas of a filmmaker who filmed a comedy movie in a conflict-affected region. *Interview in Omote-sando, Shibuya-ku *Edited by Daniel Penso 校正協力：ダニエル・ペンソ 日本語 *Pink Subaru official website (Japanese): Click here! *You can go to the previous parts here; Part1　Part2     Tokuhashi: I’ve heard that you studied film in New York before you went to Italy.

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People lead regular lives exist even in extraordinary circumstances.

2011-05-11

Interviewed by Isao Tokuhashi & Mai Namiki Written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com   Kazuya Ogawa (Part2) Filmmaker Kazuya Ogawa, a young auteur or film director who made a movie called “Pink Subaru”, which is set in a town on the Israeli-Palestinian border. In this part, we tell you about the true aspects of the Middle East which Ogawa and his staff saw. *You can go to the first part from here! *Interview in Omote-sando, Shibuya-ku *Edited by Daniel Penso 校正協力：ダニエル・ペンソ *Pink Subaru official website (Japanese): Click here!       Tokuhashi: When did you step into Palestine for the first time? The