Konishiki is on the cover of its fifth anniversary magazine and is looking good. From time to time, when I’m standing in…

PEOPLE Thanks to Chi Chan Plessner, I was able to spend a couple of laid-back hours with one of Tokyo’s best ­liked…

The big party to open the futuristic Sony Center in Berlin on June 14 was special and spectacular. As part of the…

Friends gathered where the elite meet, the Tableaux restaurant in Daikanyama, to help Eddie Quinlan cel­ebrate his birthday. Eddie’s been maitre d’…

Always pleasantly surprised when I see those people out there so happy and willing to help each other. Elaine Stolz answered my…

I got back to Tokyo on Apr. 26 in time for the concert by multi­ Grammy-winning Carlos Santana and his group. The…

PEOPLE Richard W. Mueller, director of Northfield Mount Hermon, one of the world’s most prestigious prep schools, was in town recently with…

PEOPLE Congratulations to Barry Spence and his wife Judith Curtis on the birth of their daughter Sophia Margaret Aiko Spence, at 7:21…

PEOPLE My thanks to 20th Century Fox Japan General Manager Geoffrey Boissiere who made it possible for me to invite Thai Ambassador…

A big bunch of birthdays the last month or so. Sony Chairman Norio Ohga celebrated his on Jan. 29, Chichan Plessner hers…