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Dinner at LA TOUR D'ARGENT reminds me of what's...
Year of 2014 started. On one of new year's days I was invited to the dinner at Tokyo's most expensive French cuisine restaurant, LA TOUR D'ARGENT. It is located in The Hotel New Otani Tokyo, one of Japan's high class hotel chain. The below photo is me in kimono at the wait... Read more ...
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Film”The Help” and ”Precious” Elegant & Rich...
Two films are stories about Afro-Americans in the U.S. Both of them described hard situations that Black people had experienced in the past and maybe even now. "The Help" was a story of Afro-American maids working for white families in Mississippi in 1960's when segregation was very common. Afr... Read more ...
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Book ”America's Poor Class Education field...
The author of the book is Japanese sports journalist who worked as a part-time teacher in a chartered high school in Reno, Nevada 2006. The students come from very poor families and dropped out from regular school. Most of them live with single parents. They do not have good knowledge n... Read more ...
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TV drama: ”Cashmere Mafia” Elite women in America
I just happen to rent a DVD of this TV show. A story of 4 successful working women in New York. Lucy Liu, Chinese American actress seems to be a main character. This is surprising thing. Asian woman took a main role in a popular soapopera. The story features America's latest social movement... Read more ...
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Speech on U.S. welfare reform and its failure
On 21 of December, the speech by a professor from UC Riverside, Dr. Ellen Reese was held in Hosei University, Tokyo. The speaker was critical of US welfare reform done since 1996. The purpose of the speech was to acknowledge Japanese people the welfare reform such as 5 year time-out period... Read more ...
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Empire of Poverty (Hinkon-taikoku), America!
That is the title of a book written by Mika Tsutsumi, who wrote this book , which I wrote the review of. She has lived in New York as college student and office worker but since she experienced 911 turmoil, she started to learn what went wrong in the U.S. In this book, s... Read more ...
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