Category Archives: Wasabi Stories

Wasabi Stories vol.245: “Everyone Has an Evil Side”

Today’s story-teller is screenwriter Yumiko Inoue. She has written popular TV dramas such as ‘Mother of a 14 year old child’ and ‘Pandora’. Her story is about her mentor whom…

Wasabi Stories vol.244: “Giving up Easily Does Not Solve Anything”

Today’s story-teller is former ballroom dancer Yurie Yoshino. Her story about her disease had been published in a serial form. In March 2005, Yoshino was told that she had ‘retroperitoneal…

Wasabi Stories vol.243: “Going Abroad is Not Everything”

Today’s story-teller is violinist Yasuko Otani. Let me get straight to the topic. Otani has been friends with Norio Ohga, Sony’s general counsel, since she was in graduate college. And…

Wasabi Stories vol.242: “Getting True Comfort is Not That Simple”

Today’s story-teller is writer Minato Shukawa. The story is about people he thought, “I am grateful to the person for being in this world.” One of the people Shukawa feels…

Wasabi Stories vol.241: “Knowing Who You Are is More Important Than Having Desire For Improvement”

Today’s story-teller is screenwriter Sugako Hashida. Hashida is famous for writing ‘Oshin’, a TV drama that captured hearts of people in Japan. Her story is about ‘Oshin’.   ‘Oshin’ is…

Wasabi Stories vol.240: “It is Hard to Keep Doing Things”

Today’s story-teller is Kabuki actor Kamejiro Ichikawa. The story is about leading Japanese philosopher Takeshi Umehara. One day, Ichikawa visited Umehara’s house in Kyoto. Sometimes monkeys and wild boars are…

Wasabi Stories Vol.239: “When to Look Back on the Past is Important”

Today’s story-teller is Kazuyoshi Miura, a former Japanese national football team player and a striker in Yokohama FC in Japan Professional Football League (J. League). The story is from his…

Wasabi Stories vol.238: You Can See an Illusion in Certain Environment

Today’s story-teller is poet and cell biologist Kazuhiro Nagata. Nagata was introducing an episode of him being nearly got lost in the mountain in the previous column. This is the…

Wasabi Stories vol.237: “Do not Get Stuck to the Definite Shape”

Today’s story-teller is writer Tetsuo Ebato. The story is about ‘how-to’. His story begins with Ebato’s aquaintance who is a business manager saying, “How come there are so many how-tos…

Wasabi Stories vol.236: Morning is Important to Get Work Done

Today’s story-teller is Shigehiko Toyama, a professor emeritus at Ochanomizu University. Firstly, Toyama says, “When I read Kan Kikuchi* writing, I was impressed with him saying: ‘I write nothing, even…

Wasabi Stories vol.235: There Are Various Ways of Looking at Things

Today’s story-teller is adventurer Tatsu Sakamoto who is taking a paid holiday for 4 years and 3 months. He is called ‘a corporate employee adventurer’. It sounds strange, but he…

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