Composer or Academic? 作曲家？研究者？   日本語の翻訳は、英文の下にあります。 For many people who know me as an academic and Professor of Japan Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, this music website might raise some eyebrows. But, it has long been my dream to be a composer alongside whatever else I did to...

About my musical activities 私の音楽活動について   日本語の翻訳は、英文の下にあります。 Thank you for visiting my music website. In this first blog entry I will explain about the type of musical activities I am involved in and their relationship to my work at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. I played the violin and piano...