http://www.blizzardboy.net/japan/looking-for-the-lost-journeys-through-a-vanishing-japan.html A Kiwi-Japanese family's adventures down under Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:05:24 +0900 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.blizzardboy.net/japan/looking-for-the-lost-journeys-through-a-vanishing-japan.html/comment-page-1#comment-15935 Very very Japanese Country Rock Star Sat, 24 May 2008 04:02:41 +0000 http://www.blizzardboy.net/?p=698#comment-15935 [...] When I first came to Japan I lived in Akita. Everyone there spoke very strange Japanese, but I thought it was normal. And one day someone introduced be to Yoshi Ikuzo who is a “traditional Japanese enka singer” from Aomori (the top-most province of Japan’s main island). His hometown, Kanagi-cho is one of the places Alan Booth visited in his book Looking for the Lost: Journey’s Through a Vanashing Japan. [...] [...] When I first came to Japan I lived in Akita. Everyone there spoke very strange Japanese, but I thought it was normal. And one day someone introduced be to Yoshi Ikuzo who is a “traditional Japanese enka singer” from Aomori (the top-most province of Japan’s main island). His hometown, Kanagi-cho is one of the places Alan Booth visited in his book Looking for the Lost: Journey’s Through a Vanashing Japan. [...]

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