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Asialink - Home. Wochi Kochi Magazine. Top Story "MAU"--Dancers from Five Asian Countries Come Together to Give a Collaborative Performance, with the Artistic Staging Director Fujima Kanjuro Fujima Kanjuro To celebrate the 40th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation, dancers from Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan took part in a performance project named "MAU: J-ASEAN Dance Collaboration" and in November 2013 toured the four countries other than Japan.

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SWET: The Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators. Monday, January 16, 2012 The Wordsmith’s Craft by Lynne E.

SWET: The Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators

Riggs Some may have seen the New Year’s TV program showing the tsuikidoki craftsman who takes a flat sheet of copper and over three days to a week beats it into a gracefully shaped teapot, complete with spout, using only a hammer, a high-piled rack of toriguchi forming tools, and the accumulated experience of two or three decades (reference here).

The completed work is functional, durable, beautiful to look at, and comfortable to hold in the hand.