United States | My Eyes Tokyo

My goal in Japan is to show people,”if you try hard enough, you can achieve anything”.

2008-01-28

Interviewed by Hisa Written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Nelson Babin-Coy (USA) Singer-songwriter (He’s been in Japan since 2005) Nelson is an American singer-songwriter who writes songs in Japanese and sings in Japanese. He started studying Japanese and playing music kind of late, when he was mid-teen. But he speaks Japanese like a native Japanese speaker. Also he is making a bid for a debut in the major Japanese music scene this year instead of taking a big, big risk. *Interview in Sangenjaya, Setagaya-ku Don’t touch my mustache! I came here about almost seven years ago when

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

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

I felt I was not accepted by either Japanese society or by mainstream American society.

2007-04-30

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Yuri Kageyama Tokyo Correspondent for The Associated Press (Born in Japan and educated in the U.S.) Today’s interviewee is very, very experienced journalist. Ms. Yuri Kageyama is a Tokyo correspondent for The Associated Press, or AP, a world-famous news agency. She has grown up in a bicultural environment, Japan and the U.S. She’s been transmitting what’s happening in Japan to rest of the world for a long time. *Interview in Kichijoji *Photos by Mari Sakamoto 日本語 “You’re not an assistant. You’re a reporter.” I have been with The AP

If you read the newspaper, you’d get the feeling that foreign people commit all of the crime.

2007-02-17

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Raymond Crosiar (USA) High school teacher (He’s been in Japan since January 2002) We met a calm, but very energetic American guy. Raymond Crosiar came from a small village in the state of Oregon. It was a journey from a village to the megalopolis. How did he feel about that? How does he enjoy his daily life in Tokyo? *Interview in Yokohama From a small village to the metropolis I came from a very small town in Oregon. Its population is 2,500. I flew to Japan, I got on

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

It seems that Japanese people are proud to be Japanese.

2007-01-27

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Jeffrey Hirsch (USA) Police Department Officer of the railway company We usually meet and talk with people who live in the Tokyo area. But Mr. Jeffry Hirsch lives in Los Angeles, US, not in Tokyo, nor even in Japan. Why is he in Japan? …You will see. *Interview in Yokohama A Spartan training This is my fourth trip to Japan. On the first trip, I got a little bit confused because I had to get a bus from the Narita Airport to Yokohama Station by myself. So I was a

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