Reviews

Books — Culture — Film/DVD — Food — Music — Theater

Tedaldi, Justin (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)

1. Book: Importing Diversity, by David McConnell
2. Culture:  Natsukashii in New York
3. Culture: Rakugo
4. Film: The Glorious Life of Sachiko Hanai
5. Film: Memoirs of a Geisha
6. Music: Cornelius
7. Music: Hiromi at the Blue Note
8. Music: Loudness
9. Music: PuffyAmiYumi
10. Music: Puccini’s Madame Butterfly
11. Japan Society: Donald Keene & John Nathan at Japan Society
12. Sports: S.U.M.O. (Summer)
13. Sports: S.U.M.O. (Fall)
14. Theater: Karaoke Man

Sylvander, Lyle (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02)

1. DVD: The Little Travelers
2. DVD: Pink Lady & Jeff
3. Film: The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain
4. Film: Grave of the Fireflies
5. Film: Films of Yasujiro Ozu
6. Film: Harakiri
7. Film: Paprika
8. Film: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
9. Film: Story of a Prostitute & Gate of Flesh
10. Film: Tokyo Godfathers
11. Film: Tokyo Olympiad
12. Film: Zatoichi
13. Music: Gaijin-a-Go-Go
14. Theater: Randall David Cook’s Sake With the Haiku Geisha
15. Theater: Steven Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures

Miscellaneous

1. Film: Nobody Knows
2. Food: Ramen

Alexander, Harper (Hokkaido-ken, Muroran-shi, 2002-04)

1. Film: Toni Takitani

Bigman, Fran

1. Film: Howl’s Moving Castle

DeFremery, Rosie (Shizuoka-ken, 1998-2001)

1. Book: The Great Wave

Esikoff, Alexei (Fukushima-ken, 2001-02)

1. Culture:  Museum of Sex
2. Music:  HappyFunSmile

Hersey, Brian (Fukuoka-ken, 1994-96)

1. Book: Japanese the Manga Way
2. Theater: Randall David Cook’s Fate’s Imagination