About those who taught me life lessons
I must confess that I was not the best student in the university. I majored Theatre Arts, but as I studied more about theatre, I found myself losing passion in it. In the early 2000s in Tokyo, I couldn’t find any show which captured my interest. Throughout four years, I have seen nearly 100 stages …
I remember my teacher in high school. He was a dean of the drama course I attended. He was a notable playwright and a director in his mid-60s. He was always calm, yet he was very strict about theatre education. Sometimes his directions and interpretations of the drama seemed too pedantic or too metaphorical for …
I used to have terrible period cramps when I was a teenager. When the time of the month approached, I would feel my body starting to bloat. And then I would get the heaviness and gruelling pain in my lower back and abdomen. I would often get anemia and feel so nauseous that I couldn’t …
I have once interviewed a well-known novelist. It was back in 2009, when I was studying arts management in New York. The assignment we were given was was to carry out an interview to one of those “movers & shakers” in New York. I was very excited about the task, but I had no idea …
A Thousand Years 