7-06+Tuesday++Lectures

7/06/10 Tuesday
Mr. Itoh Yatsuhashi 伊藤八十八さんは松尾所長と共の初期のJPopのポピュラーカルチャーを始めた人. 彼の成し遂げた事を聞いてもし私が歌手になりたかったらこれは幸運の巡 り会いと言えたでしょう. たくさんの有名な歌手-シンガーソングライター生み出され今でもこれからの日本の歌の世界に生み出す人や音楽を作っていかれるの であろう. サザンオールスターの「愛しのエリー」や井上陽水の歌はわたしの青春初期の頃はやった歌で　聴いていると学生時代の制服のにおいや　廊下の暗さ　友達との 交換日記　部活　好きになった男の子の事が思い出され何とも言えない気持ちでした. 家に帰ってyutubeで井上陽水の「探し物はなんですか」を見ている と今でもまだコンサートをしているようでびっくり. 吉田タクロウの「結婚しようよ」赤いふうせんの「遠い世界に」上田正樹、西岡恭蔵・大塚まさじ｢プカ プ」彼らを通して始めて外国の音楽ボブディランなど聞き始め　怪しげなコンサートに行っていると言って母が私の事を心配していた事など強烈に思い出されま した. 音楽という物は脳に強烈な印象を与えている事もう一度教えさせられる. これは持って良い生徒たちの魂に届くような歌を教えねば．．．最近の子の歌をもっと勉強しましょう. Mr. Fujitani Mr. Fujitani has everything for a young man to be successful in 21st century society. First of all, he is a great communicator. He has soft spoken voice which is not threatening, his message was well organized and his body language was relaxed and comfortable to look at. He used more than 3 different visuals so it was easy to follow him to those who were not interested in fashion. according to Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple intelligence, Mr. Fujitani has linguistic,mathematical, interpersonal ( the gift he prepared certainly got our favor)and intra-personal. visual spatial intelligence. As he shared that he raised money for the certain group of people invite us to his tenderness of his heart also. Even though he is still young, but I believe he will be doing more than editting fashion magazines in the near future and making a lot of great business. I could not help thinking what kind of boy he was while he was an elementary school or high school. I wonder he was the students whom his teachers of high school would pick as the successful man in soceity. It was well prepared presentations.

However my inner being was no quite peaceful even though his speaking manner was pleasant. I don't appreciate what he and his business world has been doing to the young ladies. They have clearly spoken and made the stereotype of the 'desirable' and ' beautiful people' by putting the young ladies who obviously have eating disorders. They are saying in loud voice that the skinner girls are nice looking and if you want to be beautiful, loose weight. I do not appreciate this message at all as I have seen many and many high school girls who struggle their self images because they are not as skinny and do not own right dress or hair styles. I wish so much that the man like Mr. Fujitani would speak up the fact the beauty of person comes also from their inner spirits which are kindness, gentleness, thoughtfulness, disciplines, adventurousness, good actions, hard workings, honesty, and loving hearts. I wonder Mr. Fujitomo and his business partners even admit that all the girls are well loved and valued to someone in the world whether they are skinny or fat.

Mr. Kenichi Okubo, a movie commentator I still don't understand why the documentary of following a cat is a good movie. I did understand the passion he has for introducing the Japanese artists to the all over the world but I don't know what are the criteiras are when he chooses good movies from the bad ones

REUNION with my former student Jonathan Raedeke Jonathan was my student when he was at Shorecrest high school. He took 4 years of Japanese and was one of my top students. Even though he loves the language, he decided to go into business major since there is more chance to living comfortably. After finishing his 2n year at UW, he decided to spend a year at Waseda University. He took me to his favorite Kaiten Zushi restaurant at Asakusa. I was so pleased and impressed how well he has adjusted a life of Japan and improved his Japanese languages. He even has a Japanese girl friend and working at Investiment company 10 hours a week. During the dinner, he thanked me that I have taught the language which oepned up two completely differnt world to experience to him.He is leaving for Seatlle by the end of July, but he is planning to take business Japanese at UW in fall. It was good to see him. It was encouraging to my weary attitude to pursue studying about the best teaching method to facilitate the youth who prepared to carry " the 21st century!!" AMEN! and AMEN!