Archive for the 'language' Category

Robert McKee

« 16 October 2003 | 15:00 | diary, language, media, worklife | No Comments »

The June issue of HBR (yes, I’m a bit behind) has an interesting interview with Robert McKee, (in?)famous storytelling coach. If you’ve seen Adaptation, you may remember his role in the movie. I have never met McKee, but I found his portrayal in Adaption rather amusing — an agressive and antagonistic character, though [...]

Mari Matsunaga

« 6 October 2003 | 14:34 | diary, events, language, salaryman, sonystyle, worklife | 4 Comments »

Last Friday evening I had the wonderful opportunity to hear 2.5 hours of Mari Matsunaga (松永真理氏) at a lecture hosted by Sony University. Matsunaga-san is one of the three muskateers who helped build Docomo and the iMode empire (BW article), and has been named many things, not the least as Fortune’s “Most Powerful Woman [...]

English Education in Japan

« 8 July 2003 | 22:50 | Japan, language, tokyo life | 6 Comments »

The current education of the English language in Japan is quite a loaded topic, but I just wanted to point out some recent efforts towards establishing a few more English oriented or bilingual schools. This snippet mentions a school out in Fukuoka that will be English-only; comments posted by others below the article provide [...]

Learning Japanese

« 5 June 2003 | 3:07 | Internet, diary, language, r&d, 日本語 | 6 Comments »

I’m having some serious issues getting to bed…this blogging thing is driving me nuts. I knew I was forgetting something — a link, perhaps — while transfering assets from my old site to the new. At last, here it is. I might wax more philosophical on this topic, as it was also [...]