http://world.tabismile.com/ free paper Tabismile ja http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=1272677 Below is mail from my friend. If you have interesting, just contact to me. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, Hope this email finds you all well. Summer is definately approaching to Japan! ...
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Hi everyone,

Hope this email finds you all well. Summer is definately approaching to Japan!

I have been helping out my friends who are organising John Devaraj's (an Indian artist/social activist) visit to Japan. There are some events organised for the next 10 days or so including art workshops, public & college lectures, talk show & live performances, fundraising party with DJs, peace bycycle (attached fryer is only in Japanese)...

I am going to the following event on Thursday - Let me know if any of you are interested in joining in.

Cheers,
Nozomi


**Feel free to forward this email to your friends who might be interested**

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Bornfree Art School Project - "Che Che Night"

When:
Thu, 13 May, 20:00 – 22:00

Where:
Ben's Cafe (http://benscafe.com/en/)
1-29-21 Takadanobaba Shinjukuku Tokyo (map)

Description:
Independent Film about the street children called "Che Che"....Directed, music, screenplay by John Devaraj..... John is an artist/social activist and runs the Bornfree Art School in Bangalore India, a school for street and working children. The film is made to make you laugh while also highlighting the conditions of street/working children. The screenplay is about children working in hotels, children working in domestic houses and about rag picking children. Also, live music to follow. Please join us. - Free of charge

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]]> NEWS+NOTICIAS 2010-05-13T08:00:09+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=1253043 FP10 Explorer without a map/ You Iwamoto I was born in Nakano, Tokyo and was a kid who had been bullied until my freshman year in junior high school. I hated it so I repeated dialogues with myself in my diary, writing my feelings in it. By doin...

FP10 Explorer without a map/ You Iwamoto

I was born in Nakano, Tokyo and was a kid who had been bullied until my freshman year in junior high school. I hated it so I repeated dialogues with myself in my diary, writing my feelings in it. By doing so, it helped to compose my mind and to be able to think what to do. My situation changed at the end of my junior high school year; they stopped bullying me.

That’s when I started to think about my future and to aspire to create something original, of my own, in this world. My answer was “teaching.” Teaching is the job that can influence your students and others in your own way. It was the reason that I chose the department of education in university.

At university, I mostly played around by dancing, having many parties, riding on my motorcycle and having some fun with girls. All I cared about was what my friends thought about me, so I tried to follow some fashions. At the end of my freshman year, I got so bored with my college life that I decided to go to India, looking for some excitement.

India was so shocking that I felt that my sense of value was blown away. India changed my point of view. I started to see things differently and to question my plan to be a teacher. Did I really want to be a teacher? My daily life and what I used to do in Japan was enjoyable but in reality, I was lost. That is why I put myself on the road and decided to travel around the world.

I took time off school and went through Asian countries, via Taiwan and the Middle East, to Africa. In India, I cremated dead bodies. In Africa, I reached the summit of Kilimanjaro. I volunteered for NGOs in some countries and experienced fasting for ten days in others. While I was on the road, I wrote a diary, my custom since junior high school. Every night I wrote a diary about my experiences of the day, reviewed it and learned from it. It was a kind of learning cycle and deepened my thoughts. I could feel that I was changing every day.

What I acquired from the streets was an answer to my question, what I live for. It is “JITA-MANZOKU (satisfaction in a win-win situation)” in a word. I cannot sacrifice myself like saints do but I think self-satisfaction is vain. I realized that the happiest thing for me is to be “JITA-MANZOKU ,” which means I do something I like to, but at the same time, help someone by doing so.

After I came back to Japan, I wanted to tell people about what I learned from the trip. My diary ended up being published as a book. I wanted to provide a place to learn in developing countries, in return for what I acquired from them. It was around the time of the War in Afghanistan, after 9/11. As I stopped at a school of refugees in Afghanistan, I planned to open a school to Afghanistan. So I set up “GENKI-DAMA NET,” a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). Funds from the profits of the book and fund-raising activities also helped. It was to establish a school mainly for children of refugees who returned to their home country, in collaboration with the NGO on the site.

After I graduated from the university, I focused on the development of human resources and support activities for educations in developing countries.

One day, I was invited to Ama town in Shimane prefecture, an island on the Sea of Japan, as a guest teacher. Since then, I transferred to the board of education and now I work for a high school on the island and teach future generations. I work in new regional education, applying some ideas from my experiences on the road.
His journey of “JITA-MANZOKU ” still continues.

(Written and photographed by ；Jiro Tanaka, Special thanks；You Iwamoto, Translation；Kenichi Harada、Victoria Rae)

]]> BACK NUMBERS+PREVIOS 2010-01-31T03:01:14+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=1212167 BE-IN TOKYO BE-IN is a peace movement that began in San Francisco in the late 1960s. The movement was a big influence on Japan's hippie culture and student movements, and helped unite youths under a common desire for peace. However, although decad... BE-IN TOKYO


BE-IN is a peace movement that began in San Francisco in the late 1960s. The movement was a big influence on Japan's hippie culture and student movements, and helped unite youths under a common desire for peace. However, although decades have passed since the movement first initiated, innocent civilians are still being hurt across the globe, and the horrors of war still casts its shadow on humanity. In order to promote a mutual understanding of peace across borders, BE-IN TOKYO hosts peace rallies every September.
BE-IN was born in 1967 when voices denouncing the Vietnam War began to resonate across the United States. Alan Cohen, an editor of a hippie magazine at the time, called for youths to come forth for a non-political event, succeeding in gathering 30,000 people. The movement expanded across the States, and eventually reached out to youths across the globe, with "love & peace" as its catch phrase.
On September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks killed over 3,000 innocent civilians in New York, prompting the question: "Why?" In response, in 2002 the 9.11 BE-IN executive committee was organized by those aspiring for a world where each and everyone could live together as a "HUMAN BEING."
Ever since, BE-IN has hosted events every year in September at Tokyo's Meiji Park.
The event includes a Flower Power Parade, where participants march along the
Meiji Street with 911 flowers in hand, in mourning of those killed on September 11th. A peace candle ceremony, where a giant peace mark is formed from candles lit by the remnants of the fire from the atomic bombing in Hiroshima -- in hope for peace and the abolishment of nuclear weapons -- also takes place.
Kiyoshi Nishida, one of the executive members of 9.11 BE-IN said that adults
were responsible for providing children with a future free from terrorism or war.
"The writer Michael Ende once said that the environmental destruction, economic
disparity and discrimination rampant in our world could be described as 'a war by adults involving children,'" he said.
And there is nothing children can do about it. But in order to create a peaceful
world free from violence, and to give hope to those children robbed of their future,
Nishida says he wants to ask each and every individual to start taking action.
"I want to let people know that the world can change, with a little effort from everyone," he said.
This year's BE-IN TOKYO 2009 will be held in Meiji Park on September 6 (Sunday). For details, please access BE-IN 2009's official Website at http://be-in.jp
A special message from BE-IN executives Kiyoshi Nishida and Kengo Yoshida can be viewed at Tabi Smile's Website, www.tabismile.com
Written by; Jiro Tanaka, Photographed by; Toshiyuki Sato, Translated by; Alex Martin
]]> BACK NUMBERS+PREVIOS 2009-09-02T00:57:51+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=1206482 Travel and Peace / Kyo Satani Kyo Satani, head of the corporation “Tabi to Heiwa”, believes that cumulative experiences of a journey make the world fun and people cheerful by strengthening the connection and mutual understanding between people b...


Kyo Satani, head of the corporation “Tabi to Heiwa”, believes that cumulative experiences of a journey make the world fun and people cheerful by strengthening the connection and mutual understanding between people beyond the borders.


Those who keep seeking encounters in daily life are light-footed. His activity which connects daily lives to the journey and peace has just begun.


I was born in a suburb in Kanagawa. My mom is so funny that she does such things like taking foreigners who she meets in the grocery store to our house and feeds them. So that was how I got used to having foreigners around me.

I majored in cultural psychology in college and I chose my research courses depending on how many international students would take the same classes. But what I’d learn the most was from actually going on journeys.

I had made up my mind that I’d go traveling when I entered college. I’ve visited many Asian countries: Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iran.... At that time, there were only a few people who would go and visit countries like Cambodia.


During these travels, it was so fun having a chance to talk to people without caring about their nationalities and generations. I immediately knew if a person was being respected, without knowing their title. I will never forget those smiles in my extraordinary experience of travel.

After I returned to Japan from traveling, I made a circle of people who I met from the journey. I had already graduated from college and was working, but I thought I would love to seriously face “travel” and study it as an academic subject.


It was around that time when I found there was a course called “Peace Studies” in a British University, and I came up with an idea for a thesis topic:“Journey and Peace (英語題名要確認)”. Going traveling makes people see their own world from the outside, and causes them to think about how we live and how other people live. It enables us to make friends. Traveling can be a tremendous drive to keep the world’s peace. I left this message in my thesis and graduated.

On August 9th 2007,Kyo Satani established the company. In November, he opened “Paxi house Tokyo” in Setagaya.


“Through spices from traveling and ethnic restaurants, I want to make this place a fun meeting, eating spot. Also, as a “piece of peace”, we will consult those NPOs and NGOs that helps global cooperation, the environment, and parental care. I’d like to rent the space to those NPOs and NGOs as well. Well, of course, they will be asked to have their “work celebration parties” at the space! Separately, I am thinking about education through traveling….. I want to cast “travel and peace” into shape.

Kyo Satani has been enthusiastically involved in international exchanges since he was little. He started traveling when he was 19 years old (He’s visited about 50 countries so far).

I got my Master’s degree in Peace Studies from the British University with the thesis theme being “Travel and Peace”. I decided to establish “Tabi to Heiwa” in 2007.
He had been responsible for the HR department of a big manufacturer, and the launch of the Press department of an I.T company.

Leveraging the HR development skills and organization experiences, he is now operating the company “Tabi to Heiwa” founded in August 9th 2007.


]]> BACK NUMBERS+PREVIOS 2009-08-17T12:45:42+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=1166554 TABISMILE OPEN MIKE 31st Sunday May @ Yoyogi park This is nice time to have party in the park. We will take place Tabismile Open Mike 31st Sunday May @ Yoyogi park. It starts at 12. Everybody can sing and read your poem. Nori, artist will join t... TABISMILE OPEN MIKE 31st Sunday May @ Yoyogi park

This is nice time to have party in the park. We will take place Tabismile Open Mike
31st Sunday May @ Yoyogi park. It starts at 12. Everybody can sing and read your poem.
Nori, artist will join this party. Bringing drinking and food would be appreciated.
I am waiting your coming. If you can join us , please send me mail to jiro@tabismile.com.

Thank you
]]> NEWS+NOTICIAS 2009-05-10T23:40:09+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=980186 Koichi Nakatani was born in Seattle, USA, in 1971. He is on a journey to walk around the world and plant trees in the ground. His ambition is not only to love the earth and make it greener but also to make people realize that they are a part of the wor...
I have been on the journey to walk and plant trees on the earth for three years, after six years of working as a businessman. In 2000, I started wandering.

I had been wondering whether my common sense or sense of value is the same as people from other nations. While I have worked for my company in foreign nations, I started thinking about it. “Common Sense” is knowledge, and an ability to judge and understand, which most people have or should have. For example, it is common knowledge to take shoes off when you enter a house in Japan, but not in other countries. If “Common Sense of the world” is the average of common sense from various regions, I wanted to know and own it. You know, you can only live your life once so I decided to go on journey to look for the “Common Sense as a member of the world.”

Firstly, I went to the United States, where I was born and then, India, Nepal, the Republic of Zambia, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Brazil, the Republic of Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, and South Africa. It took three years to travel around these countries; the three years have past swiftly.

As a business man, the most important thing in my life before the journey was to make profits using the least resources. However, during the journey, my life changed and I realized that the purpose of one’s life is to know local people, culture and nature. I became interested in these values.

In South Africa, I met with Mr. Paul Coleman who has visited 39 countries and walked 45,000 kilometers over 16 years, planting trees in the ground. He is on a journey to China from his home country, England. He plans to walk and plant 100 million trees, in memory for 100 million people who died during all of the Wars that occurred in the 20th century. I spent about a year participating in his activity in South Africa. I walked around Zimbabwe and the Republic of Zambia planting trees.

Paul Coleman has traveled around the world for more than 30 years, including a period when he was a sailor, and a driver for a British lady. As a person who has the “Common Sense as a member of the world,” he gives you a message “Let us stop killing, let us start surviving.” I think it can be understood that we should stop taking lives (which can also be symbolized as ‘trees’) and start giving lives instead. The message is so simple and direct that it is easy to understand. Someday, I wish the message would be part of the “Common Sense as a member of the world”.. I walk and plant trees for the message to be delivered to people.

I put everything that I need in my backpack and spend nights at the entrances of schools and shrines, without a tent, during my journey. Sometimes, there are people who are so kind that you can stay a night at their place. The more I continue on my trip, the more I think things become simple. The most important job in a day is to find something to eat and a place to sleep.

Planting trees in the ground is a message to people: “the survival of the earth”.

Walk on the earth, plant in the ground. My journey is about the survival of myself and the earth.

Koichi Nakatani's web site
http://earthwalkerjp.cocolog-nifty.com/

Paul Coleman's web site
www.earthwalker.com ]]> BACK NUMBERS+PREVIOS 2008-07-06T01:36:42+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=888077 We are glad to publish Tabismile 9th. We are focus on enviromental tralever Mr.Koichi Nakatani and owener of Paxi restrant " Kyo Satani". Let's take it and read at our distributro shop. Also we have pubishing party at Yoyogi Park on May 31th Sat 13P...
Also we have pubishing party at Yoyogi Park on May 31th Sat 13PM. This is open mic style and appriciated briging food and drinks. Thank you.


I will send you mail wheter we have party on Yoyogi Park at 11AM tomorrow. Estimate says tomorrow will be rainy. When it will be rainy we have lunch at Cafe shift, Meguro.
cafe　shift
?　03-3721-4574
15mins from JR Meguro on foot.
10 mins from Tokyu Meguro Fudo mae

When you come there, just call me 09017390363!!!

Thanks.
]]> LATEST ISSUE+ULTIOMO NUMERO 2008-05-03T15:13:22+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=888058 He, who started a music label called “Viajar Discos,” meaning discs on journey, will step into a new world with help of sounds. Launching a new business has a same impact as big as stepping over a border. Here’s a story of Wataru Tanaka, who is an ...

He, who started a music label called “Viajar Discos,” meaning discs on journey, will step into a new world with help of sounds. Launching a new business has a same impact as big as stepping over a border. Here’s a story of Wataru Tanaka, who is an owner of the label and Kazusa Kawahara, who is a musician from Kumamoto prefecture and touring all over Japan.

Kawahara (K): I really appreciate for your help to make a wonderful CD. Telling you the truth, when I asked you the recording I couldn’t imagine that you would start up your own label.

Tanaka (T): I realized that I could identify myself by creating music through the recording. I wanted to choose something that I truly wanted to do. By the way, how do you always work on your projects with such a natural touch?

K: I feel connections with people from my town and bountiful natures, and the feelings from those and my heart will change its forms to my songs. Each moment I make a bond with other musicians who played with and audiences is truly joyful.

T: I think you are a traveler in the sense of having 113 shows a year through the tour based in Kumamoto prefecture, not in Tokyo. Even though I do not create and express something directly, I want to build a space by a hand of artists where people have a chance to meet up with travelers like you.

K: Well, that’s “Viajar Discos.” (Discs on journey). How come you started up your own label?

T: When I played in a band of music club in my high school, one day I set up and prepared a concert stage. I was in charge of sound systems. That’s how I got known with it. Since then, I started getting interested in the world of sound systems creating a space which artists can express them and audiences have a good time both comfortably. I like to watch people enjoying and having fun. So I wanted to do it again. I worked on some related part-time jobs related to the system and started to help some performances and recordings of my friends. That’s what I went through.

What makes you so motivated to keep on doing what you do?


K: I think it’s like cooking. If your friends enjoy the dishes you made and tell you they are delicious, you want to cook them again and feel like making better ones. For me, music is similar to sleeping and eating, and in essence it is a life. So it was very hard for me not to sing as I was sick last spring. Because I am really grateful for having audiences who listen to my music and spaces to share my feelings, I will keep working on it harder to let my audiences be happier.

T: That’s nice. I have something that I want to share with artists as well. It is to create a moment people make a smile. I think human beings like to share same feelings as a person right next to you also has. Whatever people do, it is one of the greatest things to be able to connect with others through music.

K: For sure.

T: What’s your plan in the future?


K: I want to work as a professional musician who can sing a song such that as if some moments of a usual daily life will show up by listening to the song and also want to have my own steady life other than music. I have an image of my future such that my circle becomes larger and larger slowly. In the future, I hope I’ll be able to sing songs such as the voice of forests and sounds of rain drops. What about you, Wataru?


T: Honestly, I just stood up on a start line. I will work on some projects such that artists, my customers and friends will surely be pleasured. In addition to it, it would be great if I can distribute my works abroad. Through music, I want to create networks between people, and be on the road to where I want to go.


Wataru Tanaka: Representative of Viajar Discos
Under the theme of which creates a large space to connect with others through music, he conducts recording, provides supports for sound systems in various events and manages an online radio station.

Kazusa Kawahara:
Under the theme, “Harmony and Communication through Music,” she performs in live shows with some concepts such as peace, earth, nature, home to
]]> BACK NUMBERS+PREVIOS 2008-05-03T14:53:27+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=888052 Khaju Art Space Khaju Art Space is a renovated 70-year-old house, where various people across genres and nationalities gather locally. The representative Makiko Tanaka is a person who boosts the exchanges of individualities with her cheeriness ...


Khaju Art Space is a renovated 70-year-old house, where various people across genres and nationalities gather locally. The representative Makiko Tanaka is a person who boosts the exchanges of individualities with her cheeriness and pleasant resolution.


Khaju Art Space is run by Ms. Tanaka along with a pianist, an architect, creators who use the space, and their friends. Its activities include hosting various classes, planning/executing events/workshops and community related activities.


Originally, Ms. Tanaka had majored in textile weaving in art collage and then worked as a high school teacher and a teaching assistant. However, she gradually became unsure about continuing her creative activities with the constant anxiety in passing/failing craft shows.


“What is important is to bring people some happiness when they come across my works," she thought, and rented a 70-year-old house in Kamakura to set it as the center of her creative activities. That was in the winter of 1997. “I was distressed because it was over the budget, and the house was quite worn down after 6 years of being deserted. But I thought my life would have no meaning if I couldn’t live by my own values,” she looks back on her decision.


Ms.Tanaka thought about sharing the place which was too big for one person, and spoke about it in a caf? she frequents. Little by little, there came some share-mate candidates, such as a young architect and a pianist. Everyone pulled up the weeds and grass around the house and helped to restore the house.

During the first spring, they hosted an event called “Khaju-Sai(fair)”, where numerous creative works were shown. The relationships with the local communities were deepened through experiencing and showing the creative process together. In this way, the Khaju has been expanding a wave of exchanges.

This year, Khaju goes into its 10th year, and it is expanding with activities such as Java dancing school, business training, etc. It is a character of Khaju that people from completely different genres would gather there. “It wasn’t a special feeling that has brought me all the way here, but it was rather like, I decided to have a particular space, and then people would come join there. Then, it went with the tide for some time. When I looked back, there was a road created behind me”, states Ms. Tanaka.

In recent years, some international exchange has begun, and it enabled Ms.Tanaka to have a show in Russia and a symposium in Germany. These plans also spawned from communication between people who visited Khaju. “I like such events because then I can write and send thank you cards after the events,” says Ms.Tanaka.
The relationship built through the 2005 symposium in Germany has been continuing. In October this year, there will be a “Trave Art Festival 2007 in Kamakura”, which is an artistic exchange festival that connects cities across the border through art.
This festival not only shows some collaboration works and workshops of Japanese and German artists, but also joins another festival held by the a local Yuiga-hama shopping district.
Don’t miss it, since this is going to be the best chance for you to see international and inter-genre works with the same eye level as the artists. Ms.Tanaka’s journey continues as she weaves people, traditions, and communities into one union with her big smile.
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Contact information on Khaju Art Space and Trave Art Festival 2007 in Kamakura:


57-1 Nikaido Kanakura-shi, Kanagawa ZIP:248-0002
tel/fax 0467-23-3663

khaju@pastel.ocn.ne.jp

http://khaju.com

http://1192kamakura.net/taf
]]> BACK NUMBERS+PREVIOS 2008-05-03T14:45:18+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=692826 A happy new year. We spent 4th year from starting Tabismile. Last year we issued Tabismile 7th and 8th, distributor shop were expand to Shanghai in China, Madrid, Granada in Spain, and Croatia. Also We had a open Mic event at Yoyogi park. We apprecia... We spent 4th year from starting Tabismile. Last year we issued Tabismile 7th and 8th, distributor shop were expand to Shanghai in China, Madrid, Granada in Spain, and Croatia.
Also We had a open Mic event at Yoyogi park. We appreciate all corporation of interviewee, staffs, supporter and guests of event. We are very glad to make new friendship between travelers and business person beyond the distance. Such as we got email from reader of Spain. I introduced this her story on web radio.
Theme of Tabismile is " Traveling and Society". We continue to focus on person contribute to society and great traveler. Then I promise you bring big smiles to you.
Aim of this year are
# Tabismile 10th will be issued in May(5th anniversary)
# Finding real estate for Guest House Tabismile
# Take place events twice

Thanks
Jiro Tanaka ]]> NEWS+NOTICIAS 2008-01-07T00:05:28+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=654868 Tabismile visit Bum cafe in canal town called Zhujiajio in Chine. Tabismile viene Bum cafe ciudad canal se llama Zhujiajio en chino.
Tabismile viene Bum cafe ciudad canal se llama Zhujiajio en chino.

]]> DISTRIBUTION+DISTRIBUCION 2007-11-02T00:53:57+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=636531 March 10th 1945, during the World War Two, East Tokyo turned devastated under the U.S. “Great Tokyo Air Raids.” The number of deaths totaled 100,000 people. However, the youth in Tokyo, who never had war experiences, rarely touched this fact. Kirar...

March 10th 1945, during the World War Two, East Tokyo turned devastated under the U.S. “Great Tokyo Air Raids.” The number of deaths totaled 100,000 people. However, the youth in Tokyo, who never had war experiences, rarely touched this fact. Kirara Kawachi, Ikko Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, who have designed and held the event called “Words of 100,000 People 3.10,” (3.10) have produced performances to question the meaning of the “Great Tokyo Air Raids” with sound works and dances since 2005.

“3.10” is a performance made up of two factors. One is sound collages composed of voices and interviews that artist Kawachi made with those who survived under the U.S. air raids. The other is dance by Suzuki into which he put his eulogy. The performance, audiences can experience the air raids vicariously, has been held at “Gallery ef,” a repaired storehouse in Asakusa, which has existed some 140 years and underwent the air raids as well. Yamaguchi is in charge of publication of the gallery and also illumination in the performance.

Ahead of the first performance of “3.10” in 2005, three of them have considered the theme, “war,” from each point of view respectively. Kawachi produced works about the September 11th in the U.S. and presented in Hiroshima, Japan. After that, she moved into Sumida ward in Tokyo and found out the “Great Tokyo Air Raids.” She noted, “There are still bombs dropping on someone’s head somewhere in this world and you cannot ignore it as a same human being.” Suzuki grew up in Sumida ward where the damage of the air raids was horrible. He said, “I want to be a transparent pipe carrying down what happened here as it was.” While Yamaguchi was projecting an event that uses the “Gallery ef” as a symbol of which underwent through the air raids, Kawachi and Suzuki showed up and asked him if they could present a performance about the “Great Tokyo Air Raids.” This is how an artist, a dancer and a gallery shared the same theme of the “Great Tokyo Air Raids” and the birth of “3.10” with a lot of helps. According to their word, “It was meant to be.”

March 10th 2007, I went to the “Gallery ef.” After a few minutes from scheduled time, the lights went out and the voices of survivors under the air raids came to my ear. Firstly, it was the conversations about their memories of childhood. However, it changed to memories of the war gradually. Dancer Suzuki quietly showed up as if it were bombers sneaking up on dark sky of Tokyo. The voices tell you the night of burning Tokyo. When the lights began flashing, he started dancing with slow and sometimes quick and hard motions. I imagined the people suffered from fires, they were running around with no way out. Each motion of the dance was extremely intense and representing the will or desire of people to their lives. Suddenly, the dance quieted down and the voices already changed to talking about the morning of day after the air raids. According to the survivors, “there was nothing different between those who were killed and not killed, it was only a matter of luck.” When you face war, your own will or hope does not mean anything. It is obvious that either in our daily life or on the road you can smile because you are in peace. “3.10” gives me a precious time. After the event, you can rediscover the meaning and importance of being in peace. I want to yell at all people involved in “3.10.”
]]> BACK NUMBERS+PREVIOS 2007-09-29T11:51:52+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=636529 He traveled across 30,000km from the top of the North America (Alaska), to the bottom of South America (Ushuaia), riding his bicycle with guitar on his back. He felt the size of Mother Earth in his bones and interacted with people from all over the...

He traveled across 30,000km from the top of the North America (Alaska), to the bottom of South America (Ushuaia), riding his bicycle with guitar on his back. He felt the size of Mother Earth in his bones and interacted with people from all over the world through the communication of his music and guitar.

A guitarist, who ended his great adventure, started his new journey in a world of music. Deep in the world, he plays guitar for his goal of unbounded possibility and it’s melody is as if the wind ran through the world.


I want to be a professional guitarist with a style of fingerpicks. In order to be that, it is important for me to play music that nobody has ever done in this world. Although I absorbed and introduced various styles of music into my style from the countries on my last journey, it’s not possible to play the music like the native. I wondered why and found an answer. It’s simple reason, I’m Japanese. I want to express myself by putting the sense of Japan into the melody of my guitar. I think it eventually takes me to outside Japan.

I figured out in my last trip that we live in a world where anything can occurred. It is because my experiences affect me such that I was nearly attacked by a grizzly bear in Alaska and that Columbian guerilla pointed a machine gun in my face. The most impressive episode happened in the North Mexico. I was running on the road where it was littered with dead bodies of animals and illegal dumps. It was like hell. Then a small animal showed up, almost choked by sticking its head into a kind of big plastic container used for mayonnaise. I helped it without any thoughts and pulled it out of the container. It turned out to be a skinny and freak form of dog with skin disease. Even though I saved a life of the dog, it was obvious that the dog would die if I left him in there. The fact made me think if I shouldn’t have saved him. A life of living creature was totally in hand of a strange traveler who was just passing through there. Then I felt that a huge invisible power, nothing to do with my life and will, controlled everything and me. The idea really depressed me. However, I decided to keep pedaling. It is because there was a time I saw magnificent scenery and tasted delicious dishes. Feeling of those purely impressive moments saved me. Eventually, after one year and 10 months, I could finally arrive at Ushuaia in Argentine.

I couldn’t find any answers on my journeys right away. However, I started to believe my possibility in a positive way. I realized the fact, “if anything can happen in this world, anything can happen to me as well”. Nothing is different between the world of journey and the world of where I am. I simply feel happy to play a guitar now and want to keep on playing it. I think it is the way I am.


Yuki Uchiyama/ Hyper acoustic guitarist Traveling America continent by bicycle. Released music CD “FINGERING WIND” by Viajar discos in 2005. He won the audience award in fingering picking contest 2006.



]]> BACK NUMBERS+PREVIOS 2007-09-29T11:49:39+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=629291 Free Paper Tabismile 8th is coming and having party We are having a party for the new Tabismile. September 30th 2pm-6pm Yoyogi park near by Harajuku gate No charge but I appriciate bringing some wine or cheese,,,etc. Thanks! We have finished...
We are having a party for the new Tabismile.
September 30th 2pm-6pm
Yoyogi park near by Harajuku gate
No charge but I appriciate bringing some wine or cheese,,,etc. Thanks!

We have finished of ourl working for Tabismile 8th. We are going to send it to the distributor shop this week. We are focusing on "Khaju Art Space" in Kamakura for the main topics. Arts from Kamakura are making new friendships beyond the border. "Khaju" is going to start "Trave Art festival in Kamakura" with German artists on October 16th. This is a report from an interview with Makiko Tanaka.
"Traveler Without Maps" comes from an interview with Mr. Wataru Tanaka, director of the music label Viajar Disocos and Ms. Kazusa Kawahara, singer and songwriter from Kumamoto. They talked about meeting new friends and music artist.



Thank you for all.

Jiro ]]> NEWS+NOTICIAS 2007-09-20T01:38:56+09:00 jiro jiro http://world.tabismile.com/?eid=621418 I talk about life in Tokyo and jorney in the world on web radio at "Tsubu sma" Radio presented music rabel "Viajar Discos" .」 You can listin japanese underground music and free talking with Makitan on this program. Let's check it out!!! Sorry only Jap... "Tsubu sma" Radio presented music rabel "Viajar Discos" .」 You can listin japanese underground music and free talking with Makitan on this program. Let's check it out!!! Sorry only Japanese. See you on Radio.

Yo hablo sobre vida en Tokio y viaje en el munco en radio internet "Tsubu sma" presentado por musica rabel "Viajar Discos" .」 Se puede escuchar musica UNDERGRANGE y charando con Makitan( de Kansha) . Venga a la " Tsubu Sma". Solo japones, perdon. Nos vemos en la programa.


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