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Bill’s Partyline September 18th, 2009
PEOPLE Last month in Roppongi the family of one of Japan’s best-known actors, the late Toshiro Mifune, opened a fashionable new Japanesestyle…
Bill’s Partyline August 5th, 2009
PEOPLE I was driving through Roppongi one evening recently and saw that the lights in the International Clinic were all on. It…
Bill’s Partyline July 4th, 2009
PEOPLE Thanks to retired business leader Koichi Yoshikoshi and his wife Daniele, we have had a strong reminder, actually several, of how…
Bill’s Partyline June 6th, 2009
PEOPLE After a swim at Hilton Tokyo, I ran into Chris and Fumiko McDonald with the hotel’s general manager, Christian Baudat, in…
Bill’s Partyline May 5th, 2009
PEOPLE I first heard Sarah Brightman sing at her concert in London about twenty years ago, and I instantly became a devoted…
Bill’s Partyline April 4th, 2009
PEOPLE Highlights for me included setting up a birthday party for Paris Hilton at the New Lex and another party a week…
Bill’s Partyline March 6th, 2009
PEOPLE I met many people last month. First, there was Guy Laliberte, the founding president of the now world-famous Cirque du Soleil….
Bill’s Partyline February 6th, 2009
PEOPLE I’ve had the privilege of knowing Yasuyuki Nambu for many years and the super-successful business tycoon really hasn’t changed much at…
Bill’s Partyline January 9th, 2009
PEOPLE Writing Partyline over the years (many!) has given me the opportunity to get to know a lot of truly special people….
Bill’s Partyline December 4th, 2008
I really enjoyed meeting and spending time with British actress Jacqueline Bisset during several of her visits here. Jacqueline was born in…