Natsukashii na! (Nostalgia for Japan)

CHRONOLOGY OF MY JAPAN EXPERIENCES

Japanese language, San Jose City College, 1983

*Exchange student representing San Jose, Okayama, June through December 1983 (perform with Takeshi Inomata & Force, Tokyo, chamber orchestra Zephyr and techno-jazz unit Control Flex, Okayama, study and perform on KOTO and SHAKUHACHI)

Japanese language, Foothill College, 1984

Japanese language, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1984-1990

**Visit Okayama on way home from China, summer 1986 (perform with Rikiya Higashihara featuring Toshiyuki Honda, Kurashiki [pictured below], record with Control Flex, Okayama, violin performance and interview in Japanese, Setouchi-TV, Okayama)



***Teach English in Isumi rural district, Chiba prefecture, August 1987 to July 1988 (perform and record with John Kaizan Neptune, Tokyo, and debut jazz on 3-string fiddle KOKYU)

****Masters Research on Japanese Jazz Musicians, Tokyo, and Japanese Language Intensive at Inter-University Center, Yokohama, summer 1989 (performed with Himiko Kikuchi & Himiko Band)

receive MA in Japanese Area Studies, U.H., 1990

*****one measly day in city of Narita on way to China for second time, summer 1991

guest performer on KOKYU with John Kaizan Neptune & Tokyosphere in Hawaiian Islands concert tour, 1991

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above: Eric playing the kokyu.
See Wikipedia page on kokyu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokyu