The Japanese star who plays an active part in foreign country vol.1

Today and nextweek, I introduce some japanese stars of each field
who play an active part in foreign countries to you.

Especially please pay attention to the movies of their amateur days!

■Music Artist

YOSHIKI

Do you know YOSHIKI? I've heard he is famous in America and Europe too.
He is now music producer , but he was drummer pianist and leader of legendary japanese rock band "X-Japan".
I've heard Michael Jackson have often rented YOSHIKI's recording studio in LA.

His feature is not only drums he beats at the amazing high speed
but the clean melody containing the piano he plays.

Now he moved his base to US, and doing music Project called
"Violet UK" with many foreign musician there.
Violet UK hasn't released CD up to now,there's only in MySpace
you can listen tothe songs.
It has huge ppl there although it does'nt do any promotion,
The hits occupied the 4th place once among 380,000,000 registerd bands.

Now listen to the music of Violet UK.
http://www.myspace.com/violetuk

Current YOSHIKI


YOSHIKI in X-japan age


By the way, a lot of people in youtube are covering the music of X-japan.

■Baseball player

ICHIRO

ICHIRO when he was high school student and belonged to japanese professional baseball team　vol.1


vol.2


Last week I met the man who were classmate in the same highschool with ICHIRO.
He said that when he went home with ICHRO by chance, ICHIRO said modestly that it was decided he advanced to the professional.

he never thought at that time ICHIRO becomes great baseball player...

That's it today.

Next time I'm going to pick up movie director "TAKESHI KITANO"

See you next week!