http://www.nhk.or.jp/j-melo/english/broadcast/world.html Yukihiro is the in studio guest on J-Melo, the pop show that aims to bring Japanese music to the...
How long has NHK World TV been free-to-air here? How did I not notice that. Should have got one of those Lidl satellite kits when I had the chance :(...
It's been on air in the UK since October but I only started watching when someone here (?) mentioned it around Christmas time. J-Melo has featured Sheena & The...
This has been out a couple years but I ran into a posting of it on Youtube and figured someone here might find it amusing if you haven't heard it already "Shiz...
Thanks for that, never heard of this particular "band" before. Sounds like a development of his Analord phase if it is Richard D. James. I wonder if he is a...
... HOHO!! :-) was this, like, set up by, like, Valley Girls? (who suddenly burst forth with Japanese?) "Like, oh my God, that YU-KI-HI-RO-SAN, he's so...
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the new box set coming out with Hosono's compositions for other artists - 6 discs - including lots of 1980s material. Full...
... Indeed! It is a lot like some stuff on his CM album. But there is a Takahashi element in the instrumentation as well. ... I am grabbing the snippet to toss...
GREAT NEWS! YMO will be playing together at 'World Happiness 2009', August 9, 2009. It will take place in Tokyo at the Yumenoshima Park Stadium. The...
Just a quick mention in case anyone is interested, Thomas Dolby has a new best of CD/DVD set out on May 4th called "The Singular Thomas Dolby", which includes...
Just watched J-Melo on NHK World (Sky, UK) which featured Yukihiro Takahashi. Steve Jansen was shown when it was mentioned that YT had worked with several...
The programmes seem to be shown as per your local shedule on the main page of the NHK World website (in a tiny box in the top right). I just missed it there as...
Hi (Derek especially) is there anything better than Babel Vista translator for converting Japanese text? ... I mean to say... converting of the text merrily...
as I can read a bit of Japanese, seems the google translator hits the closest, with the Rikaichan plug-in being a good feature. from what I can tell.... :-P ...
... Sorry, been off the net a couple days. A couple years back I scoured the net for translators. The 'free' FreeTranslation.com is a POS that fails with this...
Thanks, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEfhOmG4a2s Actually what got me wondering. Were there some optional English subtitles turned off or did that show only...
The YouTube clip is showing the Japanese broadcast; here in the UK there were English subtitles when Yukihiro spoke, except for the first exchange where...