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REIKA UTSUGI
(December 16, 2002)
Trends in Japan interviewed softball player Reika Utsugi, a Chinese-born naturalized Japanese citizen who helped the Japanese national team to the silver medal in the Sydney Olympics.

ELIZABETH KIRITANI
(October 30, 2002)
Award-winning journalist and author Elizabeth Kiritani shared with Trends in Japan the joys of community and the beauty of traditional life in Japan.

CHARLES DUTOIT
(October 28, 2002)
Trends in Japan interviewed Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, who serves as principal conductor and music director of the NHK Symphony Orchestra.

CARL "TUFFY" RHODES
(August 6, 2002)
Our latest interviewee is one of the most well-known and popular athletes in Japan, Carl "Tuffy" Rhodes.

STEPPING 
        INTO A HIDDEN WORLD--by Gina Cogan
(April 24, 2002)
A researcher of Buddhism shares her unusual experience of stepping inside a convent that is closed to the public and glimpsing the reality of its inhabitants.

CARLOS 
        GHOSN
(April 5, 2002)
Possibly Japan's most famous foreign resident, our third interviewee shared with Trends in Japan the importance of embracing differences and learning from them.

(March 20, 2002)
Trends in Japan is featuring foreign residents of Japan. This month we are pleased to carry an essay written especially for Trends in Japan by author and translator Janine Beichman.

CHUNG 
        MYUNG-WHUN
(February 25, 2002)
The Korean-born maestro gave Trends in Japan a positive message about the power of music to unite people around the world.

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HAIKU 
        BLOOMS IN OTHER CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD--by 
        Carmen Sterba
(February 15, 2002)
A haiku poet writes about her first encounter with haiku and her subsequent experiences with the art.

WALLS? 
        WHAT WALLS?--by Geraldine Harcourt
(January 9, 2002)
A translator writes about transcending the cultural barriers often associated with Japan.

DAVID PEACE
(October 31, 2001)
I have lived and worked in Japan for seven very happy and positive years that have changed my life. Why and how this came about has much to do with how my first impressions of the country were formed.

GERALD L. CURTIS
(September 19, 2001)
"I've never been bored in Japan," says renowned Japan-watcher Dr. Gerald L. Curtis, looking back on almost four decades of his involvement with the country. Dr. Curtis came to Japan for the first time in 1966. "Every decade since has been very different. Japan changes, it's been changing a lot over the time I've seen it, I've been involved with it. So I've never had the opportunity to really get bored."

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