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February has never been one of my favorite months in Tokyo. It tends to be just a bit too gloomy and cold…

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….

Thanks to my column in the Weekender, my affiliation with some of Tokyo’s hottest nightspots, coffee breaks in the Hilton’s Garden Cafe,…

Friday the 8th… Typhoon Number Something is on its way and like about everyone I’ve talked to lately, I’ve about had it…

It’s been a strange week. I think I’ll blame it on the heat. First, somebody ripped off my camera and that’s very…

Shall we dance? It seems like just about everyone else is. The dance boom that America’s been enjoying the last few years…

June? I can’t believe it, but here we are already into another new month. Holiday-wise, there’s not all that much happening. The…

The merry month of May and we should be getting some of the nicest weather of the Sunday is the 9th year….

Cherry blossom viewing in Japan is something people talk about all over the world and now that it is in the Sakura…

People in town included actress Kathleen Turner who was here to promote the Warner Brothers’ film Body Heat in which she stars….

Popular entertainer Jerry Ito, just back from filming in Cyprus, Diet member Katsuhiko Morinaka, stage actress Mariko Kaga and Hollywood moom pitcher…

On Dec. 1 German artist Marion Settekorn opened her one woman exhibit at the German Culture Center, a new Greek Restaurant Vakhos…