My Poetry in Ishmael Reed’s KONCH
My poetry gets published in Ishmael Reed’s KONCH MAGAZINE.
“Fearless at 90” in KONCH magazine Winter 2024 issue.
What a thrill. And what company I keep.
My reading of the poem with bass by Toshiyuki “Turner” Tananashi. Tokyo 2024.
My AP Author Page
This is the link to My AP Author Page, that one place where you can see all my stories, photos and video for The Associated Press:
My Poetry and Essays in Ishmael Reed‘s THE PLAGUE ISSUES OF KONCH 2023
Ishmael and Tennessee Reed collected 62 contributions from people in China, Japan, Europe, Africa and the U.S. to write about their COVID experiences. And one of them is yours truly. The online collection of works crisscrossing the world and spanning two issues of KONCH literary magazine is coming out as a real-life book publication in 2024. On the cover is a photo taken in Venice of the poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, thinker and my forever mentor Ishmael Reed, standing next to a plague doctor (who else?) I am so happy, excited and honored. I can’t wait to get a copy.
REPORTER AT WORK PORTRAITS Photos by my colleagues over the years that are evidence I do my best as a reporter.
Photo during my interview of Japanese prosecutors for My AP Story March 8, 2023.
Photo during my interview of Yayoi Kusama for My AP Story Aug. 7, 2012.
At the FCCJ front row, brown hoodie for My AP Story April 12, 2023.
Photo during my interview of Akio Toyoda for My AP Story March 6, 2013.
My AP Story Sept. 23, 2016, when I spoke with a rock legend, who kindly called me “AP’s journalist of conscience.”
Sometimes my sources are a bit mechanical but cute. My AP Story July 13, 2015 on the Pepper robot when I am in an AP Photo, which is unusual.
Sometimes the photographer and I end up in pretty abandoned areas like the no-go zone in Fukushima. My AP Story April 29, 2014 that I filed from this trip.
And at other times, the photographer and I end up meeting extraordinary people who were hidden in their moments of glory. My AP Story May 18, 2014 when I interview Mr. Haruo Nakajima. My AP Obit Aug. 8, 2017.
We also do 360 video and end up being in that circle. This is from My AP Story Nov. 16, 2017 at a Toyota plant. Turn your cursor in the video below to see a 360 degree view of the plant:
A Photo by Shizuo of Andy and myself interviewing a Nissan executive for My AP Story Sept. 12, 2017.
Takashi Murakami took this selfie after our interview for this AP Story Dec. 31, 2015.
MY AP STORIES 2023
My AP Author Page where you can see all my stories, photos and video in one place.
My AP Stories for 2022 with links on the site to some earlier years. And My AP Stories for 2023:
My AP Story Dec. 14, 2023 on the Olympic bribery trial, in which the main defendant Haruyuki Takahashi asserts his innocence.
My AP Story Dec. 8, 2023 on Nintendo canceling and postponing events over threats.
My AP Story Dec. 5, 2023 on the ongoing Tokyo Olympic scandal trial.
My AP Story Nov. 18, 2023, an obit on religious leader Daisaku Ikeda.
My AP Story Nov. 8, 2023 on Nintendo working on a Zelda live-action film.
My AP Story Nov. 3, 2023 with my photo and video when I interview the director of the new Godzilla film.
My AP Story Nov. 29, 2023 on Toyota selling part of its stake in Denso.
My AP Story Nov. 1, 2023 on Toyota’s earnings getting a big boost from the cheap yen.
My AP Story Oct. 29, 2013 on the G-7 trade meeting.
My AP Story Oct. 25, 2023 on the Tokyo Mobility Show.
My AP Story Oct. 10, 2023 on the latest in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics bribery trial.
My AP Story and My AP Photos Oct. 7, 2023 when I interview director Yoji Yamada.
The story gets highlighted in Kabuki by Shochiku Oct. 14, 2023.
My AP Story Oct. 12, 2023 on Toyota’s move on EV batteries.
My AP Story Oct. 2, 2023 on the ongoing Johnny’s story whose name is now Smile-Up.
My AP Story Sept. 21, 2023 on Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli becoming Nippon TV’s subsidiary.
My AP Story Sept. 16, 2023, an obit on Kabuki actor and innovator Eno Ichikawa.
My AP Story Aug. 29, 2023 about Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final film.
My AP Story Sept. 2, 2023 with My AP Photos on Vocaloid star Hatsune Miku, 16 from 16 years ago.
My AP Story and My AP Photos Aug. 23, 2023 on digital clones in Japan.
My AP Story Oct. 6, 2023 in which I interview the CEO of major Tokyo developer Mori, and My AP Photos.
My AP Story Sept. 21, 2023 with the tender offer completed.
My AP Story Aug. 7, 2023 about Toshiba announcing a buyout offer.
My AP co-byline Story Sept. 15, 2023 on Arm’s IPO.
My AP Story Sept. 13, 2023 with the company setting up the compensation panel, foregoing pay.
My AP Story Sept. 7, 2023 on Johnny’s apologizing and promising compensation.
My AP Story July 13, 2023 about people coming forward alleging sexual abuse at Johnny’s.
My AP Story Sept. 4, 2023 about how the men who have come forward are hopeful, and fearful, ahead of the company’s first news conference on the scandal.
My AP Story Aug. 29, 2023 about a team looking into sexual assault allegations at Johnny’s and demanding Julie resign.
My AP Story Sept. 12, 2023 about companies dropping Johnny’s stars from ads.
My AP Story and My AP Photos Aug. 4, 2023 about a U.N. group looking into the allegations at Johnny’s and how seven men saw that as a big step forward.
My AP Story and My AP Photo Aug. 14, 2023 on the men who came forward on the abuse speaking to the special team set up by Johnny & Associates.
My AP Story and My AP Photo Aug. 31, 2023 on Nissan Leaf batteries being reused for a portable power station.
My AP Story Aug. 31, 2023 on a retail chain being sold to a U.S. fund.
My AP Story Aug. 15, 2023 on Japan’s economic growth surging on strong exports and tourism.
My AP Weather Story Aug. 6, 2023.
My AP Story June 29, 2023 on Fender’s first flagship store opening in Tokyo, and My AP Photo below.
My AP Story May 29, 2023 about the comic who poses naked but, don’t worry, is wearing … pants.
My AP Video and My AP Photos that go with My AP Story. Thanks to Tony for sharing his Story.
My AP Story Aug. 9, 2023 on Sony’s financial results hit by a strike in the U.S. movie sector.
My AP Story Aug. 8, 2023 on SoftBank Group’s earnings report.
My AP Story July 6, 2023 on MyNumber in Japan.
My AP Story June 12, 2023 about Johnny’s in-house investigation on sexual abuse.
My AP Story June 19, 2023 on how wages and prices are rising.
My AP Story June 14, 2023 about how Toyota shareholders rejected a proposal on climate change.
My AP Story June 13, 2013 on Toyota’s EV initiatives.
My AP Story, My AP Photos and My AP Video June 2, 2023 about Maholo, who is French and Japanese _ and a Kabuki star.
My AP Story June 1, 2023 about Toyota’s liquid hydrogen racing car.
And My AP Photos when I get close to Akio Toyoda aka Morizo, who drove the hydrogen racing car.
My AP Story May 27, 2023 about Le Mans to include hydrogen vehicles.
My AP Story May 30, 2023 about Toyota, Daimler Truck, Hino, Mitsubishi Fuso joining forces in ecological technology.
My AP Story May 20, 2023 about Toyota disclosing improper crash tests.
My AP Story May 18, 2023 about Japan’s prime minister meeting with chip makers.
My AP Story May 15, 2023 about the apology from the talent agency mired in a sex scandal.
My AP Story May 17, 2023 on Japan economic growth.
My AP Story May 11, 2023 on Nissan’s earnings.
My AP Story May 11, 2023 on SoftBank’s earnings.
My AP Story May 11, 2023 on Honda’s earnings.
My AP Story May 12, 2023 on a data breach on 2 million Toyota vehicles.
My AP Story May 10, 2023 on Toyota’s earnings results.
My AP Story May 2, 2023 on BYD EVs starting to crack the Japan market and My AP Photos.
My AP Story May 1, 2023 about Jack Ma being a professor at a Japanese university.
My AP Story April 26, 2023 on Honda outlining its EV strategy.
My AP Story April 21, 2023 with My AP Photo, in which Toyota’s new president vows to push ahead with EVs.
My AP Story April 21, 2023 on a verdict in the Olympic bribery trial.
My AP Story April 15, 2023 on Takeshi Kitano’s latest film headed to Cannes.
My AP Story April 14, 2023 in which I interview Makoto Shinkai about his filmmaking.
My AP Story April 12, 2023 on a former Johnny’s Junior alleging sexual abuse.
My AP Story April 11, 2023 on climate change in Japan.
My AP Story April 3, 2023, an Obit on Ryuichi Sakamoto.
My AP Story April 6, 2023 about the Olympic scandal and the Sapporo election.
My AP Story March 24, 2023 on Toshiba’s tender offer.
My AP Story March 19, 2023 on how the hit WBC pepper-grinder move is out in high school baseball.
My AP Story March 8, 2023 on how women prosecutors are fighting crime, gender inequality.
My AP Story March 6, 2023 and My AP Photo (below) on One Piece going Hollywood.
My AP Story March 7, 2023 on Roki Sasaki at the World Baseball Classic, which makes it into the Stars and Stripes.
My AP Story March 17, 2023 on business leaders from South Korea and Japan agreeing to work together.
I’m a Contributor to this AP Story March 19, 2023 on a North Korean missile launch.
My AP Story March 14, 2023 on Trevor Bauer signing with a Yokohama club.
My AP Story Feb. 26, 2023 on a young Ukrainian making Japan his new home.
My AP Story and My AP Photos March 9, 2023 on Nissan’s electrification move.
My AP Story Feb. 28, 2023 about Dentsu and others getting charged in the Olympic bid-ridding scandal.
My AP Story March 9, 2023 about Japan’s economic growth staying flat.
My AP Story March 10, 2023 on the next central bank governor.
My AP Story Feb. 14, 2023 on a scholar being nominated to head Japan’s central bank.
My AP Story Feb. 27, 2023 about Nissan accelerating its shift toward electric vehicles.
I’m a Contributor to this AP Story Feb. 18, 2023 about North Korea firing yet another missile.
My AP Story Feb. 17, 2023 on an Olympic bribery scandal trial opening in Tokyo.
My AP Story Feb. 14, 2023, an Obit on Shoichiro Toyoda, the son of Toyota’s founder.
My AP Story Feb. 13, 2023 on Toyota’s new leadership team.
My AP Story Feb. 6, 2023 with Kelvin Chan in London about Nissan and Renault balancing their mutual shareholdings.
My AP Story Feb. 4, 2023 on the prime minister’s aide being forced to leave over discriminatory remarks.
My AP Story Feb. 8, 2023 on arrests, now in a bid-rigging investigation into the Olympics.
My AP Story Feb. 2, 2023 on Kadokawa promising better governance in the Olympic scandal.
My AP Story Feb. 2, 2023 on Honda’s hydrogen plans.
My AP Story Feb. 2, 2023 on Sony’s new managerial leadership.
My AP Story Jan. 30, 2023 on Nissan, Renault balancing out the shares they hold in each other.
My AP Story Jan. 20, 2023 on Japan’s inflation.
My bit on the Japanese minister is part of this AP Story Jan. 18, 2023 on the Davos World Economic Forum.
My AP Story Jan. 13, 2023 on Akio Toyoda talking about converting old cars into ecological ones.
My AP Story Jan. 26, 2023 on Toyoda stepping aside as CEO.
I’m a Contributor to this AP Story Jan. 6, 2023 on Samurai Japan at the World Baseball Classic.
I’m also a Contributor to this AP Story Jan. 10, 2023 about a Rangers pitcher signing with SoftBank.
My AP Story Jan. 2. 2023 on the Emperor greetings well-wishers.
THE BROKEN FRAME a poem by Yuri Kageyama
The ambulances are screaming. We look up and see a big tear in a steel fame right by our apartment building. We wonder but figure it’s not a murder because we don’t read about it, and there aren’t that many murders in Tokyo. Every time we see the broken frame, we wonder who it could have been. And what might have driven this individual, whom we don’t know and never will know, male or female, young or old, happy or unhappy, probably unhappy, literally over the ledge to a dark deep definitive leap of death. It does not make us feel very good. Every time we see that broken frame. A few weeks later, the frame gets fixed. And we stop wondering.
I still like this Story I did for The Associated Press some time ago when I interviewed a former kamikaze pilot. It was still online at The Detroit News.
“News From Fukushima _ Meditation on an Under-Reported Catastrophe by a Poet,” directed by Yoshiaki Tago, gets a screening at Libra Hall in Tokyo SUN April 23, 2023, followed by My Poetry With Music.
The film documents a theater performance in San Francisco in 2017, directed by Carla Blank, starring Takemi Kitamura, Monisha Shiva and Shigeko Sara Suga with music by Stomu Takeishi, Isaku Kageyama, Kouzan Kikuchi and Joe Small. Lighting by Blu. Video by Yoshiaki Tago. Written by Yuri Kageyama.
We also did A Reading of My Poems with music. In the order they were read: “I Am The Virus” (please see below for the recording), “Hiphop Fukushima,” “Nothing Happens,” “ode to the stroller,” written and read by Yuri Kageyama with music by The YURICANE band featuring Nobutaka Yamasaki (piano), Takuma Anzai (drums), tea (vocals), Hiroshi Tokieda (bass) and Hideyuki Asada (guitar).
Yuri Kageyama · I Am The Virus _ a poem by Yuri Kageyama with piano by Nobutaka Yamasaki
I AM THE VIRUS
a poem by Yuri Kageyama, read with piano by Nobutaka Yamasaki. First published online in KONCH Magazine in 2020, compiled into a book in 2024, THE PLAGUE EDITION OF KONCH MAGAZINE, edited by Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed.
I am the virus
I thrive on mossy envious egos
They keep showing up
Offices, clubs, picnics,
Choosing being seen, hoarding
Over social dis-tan-cing
I am the virus
I fester in corona-shaped clusters
Commuter trains, cruises, crowds
Peering at the Olympic torch,
I love the naming “Chinese virus”
The taunts, attacks on slant-eyed people
I am the virus
I cower when folks stay in
Takeout food, work from home,
A meter apart on solitary walks,
Wearing masks, washing hands,
Mixing aloe and alcohol
I am the virus
The crazy evil devoured
By doctors, vaccines, canceled concerts
Turning into live-streamed music,
People who remember to tell those they love
How much they really love them.
All PHOTOS by On Lim Wong.
FILMS BY ABOUT AND WITH YURI SAT Feb. 11, 2023 in Tokyo
Five films, all featuring bilingual/bicultural poet/storyteller YURI KAGEYAMA, were shown at a tiny Tokyo club. Among the works are two directed by YOSHIAKI TAGO: A performance by American-based actors and musicians in San Francisco, and a documentation of Kageyama’s reading in Japan. Stop motion artist HAYATTO has painstakingly created animation of Kageyama’s short story. SAT Feb. 11, 2023, from 2 p.m. ShimoKitazawaTei https://shimokitazawatei.com/ FREE ADMISSION
詩人カゲヤマユウリが関わった５作品が東京で上映された。映画、テレビドラマなど数多くてがける多胡由章監督のニュースフロムフクシマとトーキング太鼓の他、国内海外活躍のストップモーションアーティストHAYATTO のアニメなどが下北沢亭 https://shimokitazawatei.com/
2月11日(土) 午後2時 入場無料。
ARTIST BIOS プロフィ―ル
YOSHIAKI TAGO directed “Sabai Sabai,” “Women at the Cash Register,” “Worst Contact,” as well as many Japanese TV drama shows, including “Atomu No Ko.” He won an award at the Yasujiro Ozu Memorial Film Festival. A graduate of the prestigious Japan Institute of the Moving Image, founded by Shohei Imamura, Tago has worked with Nobuhiko Obayashi, Takashi Miike, Takashi Murakami and Macoto Tezuka.
多胡由章監督は映画「サバイサバイ」「夜の底で魚になる」「レジを打つ女」「ワーストコンタクト」 他、「アトムの童」などテレビ番組も数多く手掛ける。小津安二郎記念蓼科高原映画祭受賞。日本映画大学卒。大林宣彦、三池崇史、村上隆、手塚眞とコラボ。
HAYATTO specializes in stop motion film, in which the figures he makes by hand are moved, with a minimum of eight frames needed per second. His credits include “Box Cats,” as well as advertising for T-fal and Mitsui Sumitomo.
HAYATTO が特化するストップモーションは手造りのフィギャーやパーツをすこしづつ動かし少なくとも一秒8フレームで表現する「愛あふれる」作品。ショート「ハコネコ」やT-falや三井住友の広告で活躍。
YURI KAGEYAMA is a poet, writer, journalist and filmmaker born in Japan and raised in Maryland and Alabama. Her books include THE NEW AND SELECTED YURI (Ishmael Reed Publishing Co.). Her works are in KONCH, Bigotry on Broadway (Baraka Books), Life and Legends, Tokyo Poetry Journal and many other literary anthologies and magazines.
カゲヤマユウリ(影山優理)は日本生まれアメリカ育ちの詩人、ものかき、ジャーナリスト、ビデオ作家。
著書にはTHE NEW AND SELECTED YURI (Ishmael Reed Publishing Co.) など数多くの文芸雑誌や文集に掲載。
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FREE ADMISSION Free Drink And Come/Leave As You Wish.
入場無料 出入り自由 無料ドリンク付き
下北沢亭 https://shimokitazawatei.com/
東京都世田谷区代沢5−29−9 2F
5-29-2 Daizawa Setagawa-ku Tokyo
SAT Feb. 11, 2023 2 p.m. ~ 5 p.m.
2023年2月11日（土）午後2時 ～ 5時
上映順と時間 Works in order of screening and duration:
I WILL BLEED, STORY OF MIU by Yuri Kageyama 2 min, 6 min
THE VERY SPECIAL DAY by HAYATTO 12 min
NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA by Yoshiaki Tago 1 hour 15 min
Q&A with the artists 作者達との談話 20 min
TALKING TAIKO by Yoshiaki Tago 44 min
