Author, Researcher and Lecturer with a Passion for History, Music and Japan
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…
This week, on 11 March it will be ten years since the triple disaster – earthquake, tsunami, and the multiple nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant – hit North-Eastern Japan. While the third was man-made and unprecedented, natural disasters, alas, are not new to Japan. The Sanriku coast…
And so, Yamaha and Kawai toiled up and down the mountain roads of Hakone, carrying their masterpiece on a pole. The reactions of the music teachers in Hamamatsu and Shizuoka had shaken Yamaha’s confidence only slightly. Surely, whatever the problem with the reed organ they had built, he would be…