‘Ukrainian Night’ in Sendai – in 1903?

  • 10th June 2022

My last blog took at its starting point a performance at a concert in Sendai in 1916: It’s a Long Way to Tipperary (billed as ‘Tipperary Song’). The piece I’m writing about today is a bit of a mystery: with regard to the title, the connection with Ukraine seems to…

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Keep Moving and Stay Healthy: rajio taisô ラジオ体操

Keep Moving and Stay Healthy: rajio taisô ラジオ体操

  • 5th February 2022

Yesterday (4 February 2022), the Danish radio’s morning programme (DR P1 Morgen) reported on research done by Professor Lars Andersen (the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen) proving that simple physical exercises anybody can do at their workplace can significantly reduce work-related physical complaints, which account for…

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It’s a Long Way to Tipperary – from Sendai

It’s a Long Way to Tipperary – from Sendai

  • 10th November 2021

Come to think of it, it’s a really long way to Tipperary from the provincial town in northern Japan. But that didn’t prevent a Japanese high school student from singing the テッペラリーソング (‘Tipperary Song’), in a concert at Miyagi Teacher Training College in Sendai in February 1916. Published in 1912…

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