As an enthusiast of classical music, I was thrilled to meet, albeit briefly, Midori Goto. She made her debut at age 11 with the New York Philharmonic, a true child prodigy. Here, she was performing in Los Angeles during her tenure at USC.

It has been a few years since taking part of the first American motorcycle tour of Vietnam since the Vietnam war. With a few veterans we rode from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in a span of a week or so. What an adventure!

The publishers of the Japanese language edition of The Prototype, Neko Publishing, is part of Culture Entertainment, the producers of the feature film, Drive My Car, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film!