Author: Hersey Shiga

PEOPLE Happy to see that friends in showbiz promotion are doing well. Kyodo’s Al Arashida really gave the two days of full-house…

On the showbiz scene, friends at Kyodo Tokyo and Udo Artists International were super satisfied with the sold-out concerts for Sarah Brightman…

PEOPLE It’s always nice to have one of the world’s top actors, Leonardo DiCaprio back in town, and I always enjoy talking…

PEOPLE Another of Tokyo’s popular diplomatic couples will be leaving soon after four years in Japan. Indian Ambassador Hemant Singh and his…

PEOPLE Sex and the City 2 Premiere It was glamour galore at the Roppongi Hills Arena when limo after limo unloaded some…

PEOPLE Kazuo Ogawa ’s Birthday Blast Noted jewelry designer, event planner and producer Kazuo Ogawa and his business partner Atul Parekh of…

PEOPLE I did take a break and go down to Yokohama Arena for Lady Gaga’s concert. That was really a packed, colorful,…

PEOPLE My big blues experience in Japan came when I set up two club concerts for actor, singer and harmonica player Bruce…

PEOPLE As most of you know, the movie scene here in old Edo has really been busy. Japan is a favorite destination…

I enjoyed the Maruyamas’s annual Chinese dinner at Hilton Tokyo’s Dynasty Restaurant, as well as several other intimate get-togethers with Chinese friends…

PEOPLE New York-based psychic Ron Bard was in town to do a TV program for TBS, and it was great getting together…

PEOPLE My sincerest thanks to Sony Pictures’ Dick Sano for the invitation to the VIP reception for the 2012 premiere. This gave…

PEOPLE It’s that time of the year when there are so many worthwhile charity events, as well as our Weekender special on…

PEOPLE F1 Drivers Party in Tokyo. This was the third year in a row that Ceremony Corp. president Tsukasa Shiga sponsored several…

PEOPLE In keeping with our special issue on Germany, I’d like to talk a bit about the beautiful country, the great people,…

PEOPLE Last month in Roppongi the family of one of Japan’s best-known actors, the late Toshiro Mifune, opened a fashionable new Japanesestyle…

PEOPLE I was driving through Roppongi one evening recently and saw that the lights in the International Clinic were all on. It…

PEOPLE Thanks to retired business leader Koichi Yoshikoshi and his wife Daniele, we have had a strong reminder, actually several, of how…

PEOPLE After a swim at Hilton Tokyo, I ran into Chris and Fumiko McDonald with the hotel’s general manager, Christian Baudat, in…

PEOPLE I first heard Sarah Brightman sing at her concert in London about twenty years ago, and I instantly became a devoted…

PEOPLE Highlights for me included setting up a birthday party for Paris Hilton at the New Lex and another party a week…