Hey, it’s 1985 and here we go again. I sort of laid low. on the resolutions this year but, like just about…

Sitting here scribbling this offering of “Party Line” in the restaurant in the San Francisco airport waiting for my connecting flight to…

July … the rainy season should be over in about a week and it will really warm up. This is also the…

If you haven’t noticed in the dailies, there’s a big crackdown on the use of and trafficking in drugs here. I don’t…

Sunday the 8th . . . what a beautiful day! I started out the morning at the antique market at Nogizaka ….

Just about everyone who was here for the Tokyo Music Festival has left. Happy to report it was a big success in…

I’ve been running the last few weeks …not just around Tokyo, but out of the country as well. First there were three…

We are about to move into February, the shortest month of the year and usually one of the coldest and dreariest months…

I’d like to begin this final Party Line of the year by thanking you all for your support and readership in 1983,…

Well, it’s that time again, and thanks to our many friends out there I think this year’s special looks better than ever….