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Hello! from Japan

About Japan and music

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  • Blog
  • Where I live now
  • Music
  • “Family Planet Japan” Project
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Introduction

Introduction

Hi, I’m Taka. Let me talk about myself a bit here.
I’m a Japanese artist and originally from Tokyo.
To get away from the stressful environment in big cities and also to concentrate more on creating art works, I moved to a beautiful rural area, Takayama city, in Gifu prefecture in 2017. (*After the COVID pandemic, I had to come back to Tokyo. Now I go back and forth between Tokyo and Takayama)

When I was a high school student, I got really into western music and foreign cultures. I self-taught music (and studied English a lot) for about 3 years and then moved to the U.S with nothing but my guitar. I was 18.

I lived in Florida for 3 years and took some music classes at a college for 3 years. It was an amazing experience and I found it is very important to always be open-minded to different kinds of art, community, and culture.

After finishing the music program there, I went back to Tokyo and lived in Kichijoji (which is my hometown), Shibuya, and then Roppongi. Besides being a musician, I took many kinds of jobs from acting to web marketing (and once worked as a manager of a temple as well), but I have mostly been working as a composer, editor, and an English teacher throughout my life so far.

I decided to open this website so that I can get connections with people all over the world, introduce Takayama, and also to promote my music and things that I’m working on.

I would also like to discuss how we should live in this rapidly
changing society.

Is living in a big city really beneficial? What is to “work” while technologies are taking places? How do you want to spend your life time?
I will post my opinions and some questions to you on my blog, so feel free to join and give me some comments.

For your inspiration and better life.
Taka

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Taka/原貴浩

Taka吉祥寺出身の元大手英会話学校教務主任、作曲家、コンテンツ開発/編集者。高校生の時に出会ったアメリカ人の英語の先生がきっかけで英語や海外文化に興味を持つようになり、18歳で単身アメリカのフロリダ州へ音楽留学、主席で卒業。帰国後は舞台や楽曲制作などエンタメ業界に関わりながら長年英会話の講師として務め、英語関連の書籍や音声/動画コンテンツの制作、編集なども行っている。コロナ禍前に岐阜県の高山に移住し、同市の英語講師、通訳案内士やゲストハウスの立ち上げを行いながら、外国人移住者と地域住民との架け橋となる多文化共生支援団体、Family Planet Japanの代表としても活動。英語や音楽を通した人とのつながり作りや、まちづくりにも精力的に関わっている。 Introduction

  • Introduction
  • Blog
  • Where I live now
  • Music
  • “Family Planet Japan” Project
  • Contact
  • Privacy policy

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