It’s nice to know that Apple is going to provide Japanese users with Reiwa Era support in iOS 12.3. It would have been extra nice if that support could have […]
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Martin Luther King Day
My mother was never one to tell stories, especially her own. But there was one she had that was special to her. My mother attended the New England Conservatory of […]
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Yumi Matsutoya Arrives on Apple Music
Talk about finally. Yumi Matsutoya, one of the biggest Japanese artists and J-Pop stars of the last 50 years, and one of the longest holdouts, landed with her complete catalog […]
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Along the O. Winston Link Trail
Since childhood I have always loved O. Winston Link’s photographs and sounds that he captured for his historic Norfolk & Western Railroad project 1955~1960. On a recent trip to Virginia […]
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The JASRAC Shakedown
JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) has been in the news a lot recently, and not in a good way. The fun started when JASRAC demanded that […]
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