When I look at the end of a year and the transition to a new one, I can’t avoid comparing the transition to the concept of a birth canal. Right before Christmas there’s the anxiety about what to do that night and how to get there while doing all the things one must do before the old year ends. Who…

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The 2010 edition of Kohaku Utagassen, famous NHK competition in which team white (men) and team red (women) compete with each other singing, was pretty uneventful. The competition was handed to the white team from the beginning with a poor performance from Ayumi Hamasaki that was immeditately beaten by Exile. From then on, the women were beaten on every single…

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It’s the 31st of December 2010….It’s the end of another year.The end of the year means exactly just that, a year ends and a new one begins tomorrow. Life doesn’t happen in 12 months, life doesn’t end in 12 months. It all continues as we all know. On this day however, as we all do, it’s time to look back…

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