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Music, racing cars (Formula One), Books, Fishing (my Passion!), IKEBANA or Japanese Flower Arranging, Net Marketing, Quality Movies, Figure Skating (Japan team esp.), Digital Photography, Onsens & Spas, foreign languages, wine and liquors, Blogging, road trips and travels ( 旅行 ), Mechanical, Automatic, and Signature WATCHES, Poems & Literature, Baseball (Japan and The Major Leagues), Guns and Ammo, bidding and selling in YAHOO JAPAN auction, Cuisines and Cooking anything from Japanese Dishes~ to food processor meals, and making desserts and baby meals myself, I adore babies and kids and that's about it.. ;-)

lots!..tons of it! I'm a DVD/Movie addict!, I esp. like War documented films, Love Comedy, Suspense, Human-Drama, Documentaries, Action Packed, Japanese Samurai "chongmage" classics, ( 宮崎 駿 の) MIYAZAKI HAYAO's 天空の城ラピュタ ( Castle in the Sky ), 風の谷のナウシカ ( Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ), 魔女の宅急便 ( Kiki's Delivery Service ), となりのトトロ ( My Neighbor Totoro ), 千と千尋の神隠し ( Spirited Away ), ハウルの動く城 ( Howl's Moving Castle ), 崖の上のポニョ ( PONYO on the Cliff by the Sea), 耳をすませば ( Whisper of the Heart ), 借りぐらしのアリエッティ ( The Borrower Arrietty ), もののけ姫 ( Princess Mononoke ), and 紅の豚 ( Porco Rosso ).I also especially love Miyazaki Gibli Studios produced film 火垂るの墓 ( Grave of the Fireflies ) Written and Directed by Isao Takahata ( 高畑 勲 ). It's one of the most touching, powerful and profoundly human animated anti-war film I've ever seen. I strongly recommend it. I cannot resist to also mention one last favorite movie I so love, ゲド戦記 ( Tales From Earthsea, Tales of Ged ) it is a film by Miyazaki Hayao's own son, his eldest Miyazaki Goro ( 宮崎吾朗 ). You'll not regret watching it...For TV shows and program: I love Koko ga hen dayo Nihonjin, SMAP-SMAP, MTV, Shoten, Ai nori Love wagon, FORMULA ONE race, F Nippon, MotoGP, Sekai Gyoten News, Waratte ii to omou, Okusama wa Gaikoku'jin, Sanma no Karakuri Terebi, NIPPON PRO YAKYU and the Major Leagues, Sekai Fushigi Hak'ken, U'chang NAN ' chang, UTABAN, SPORTO, Music Fair, NHK Documentaries, K1 grand prix, Unbelievable, SANMA no Manma, Aichi'teru, ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix Tournament...and many, many more.

JPOPS, Latest Craze, Rock and Heavy Metal, memorable HITS of the 80's, OPM, NEW WAVE, Sappy 70's, Alternative, R n' B, EuroBeat, Rhytmic Jazz, I'm beginning to appreciate Classic now because of my love for figure skating- I esp. love FREDERIC CHOPIN's classics like - "Nocturne Op9,No2", "Prelude in E minor Op.28 No.4", "A Wish", "Nie ma Czego Trzeba (Faded and Gone)", "etude In A Flat Major", "Ballade no.1 in G minor, Op.23", "Torrent", "Fantaisie-Impromptu", "Étude Op. 10, No. 3 So Deep is the Night". memorable classics like "Mon Coeur S'ouvre A Ta Voix","Intermezzo Sinfonica", " Ravel's BOLERO (Excerpt)", Johann Sebastian Bach's "Minuet", Ludwig Van Beethoven's "Fur Elise", "Moonlight Sonata" and his "Ode de Joy", Charle's Gounod's "Ave Maria", Johannes Brahms's "Hungarian Dance", Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto in G 2nd Mvt Adagio", and his "Spring from The Four Seasons". Franz Liszt "Liebestraume", "Prelude C#minor Op 3-No2 or Bells of Moscow" by Sergei Rachmaninoff, "Masquerade Waltz" by Khatchaturian, "Caprice" by Niccolo Paganini, and Claude Debussy's "Claire de Lune", "Arabesque #1", and his "Prelude a L'Apres-Midi D'Une Faune" to name a few........any music actually ... anything but Reggae; and Rap!

Legal Suspense (John Grisham; James Patterson), Books by Danielle Steel, Stephen King, Ira Levin, Sidney Sheldon, Robert Ludlum, Agatha Christie, and Amy Tan are my all time favourites!I also enjoyed J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye",G.Lang's "Why a daughter needs a Dad" ,Rick Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life" ,Leslie Levine's "Ice-cream for Breakfast!" ,Dan Brown's "Deception Point" ,"Da Vinci Code", "Angels & Demons" ,"Digital Fortress" , and his latest"The Lost Symbol"I also love L.Schlessingers's "The proper care and feeding of husbands",Haven Kimmel's "The Solace of Leaving Early" ,Harper Lee's "To Kill a mocking bird" , "The Stand" by Stephen King ,"Twilight 1-to-4" ,"Sword of Shannara" by Terry Brooks, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens ,and my favorite Mitch Albom's"Tuesdays with Morrie" , "For One more Day" ,and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" are the latest that I could recommend.It's a must-read book i tell you!I am currently reading his latest book "Have a Little Faith" and loves every page...my, my~ this is HARD! ...I could go on and on...There's so many books I love and read...