Tag: japan

Japan’s Animals are in Peril

The recent earthquake and consequential tsunami in Japan has kept people all over the world asking how they can help.  When a disaster like this strikes the devastation is enormous, not only to our human friends, but to our animal friends as well. Animals left in the quake of a

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Ric O’Barry: The Performance of a Lifetime

When Oscar-favorite Mo’Nique accepted her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture she began powerfully and matter-of-factly, toting, “First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing it can be about the performance and not the politics.” The actress and comedian, who wore royal blue with

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Senior Living Projects

Senior Living Projects By Luisa Nunez The Machida Royal Care Facility, a senior living center located just outside of Tokyo is the first of its kind in Japan to incorporate what is known as the Eden Principle into their health care system. The principle, according to Lea von Kaenel, Principle

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The Last Samurai
Wendy Diamond

The Last Samurai

The movie The Last Samurai not only features the handsome and accomplished actor Tom Cruise, but it also stars fifty stunning and extremely talented equine actors. The Last Samurai is set in the 1870’s and follows the story of the ancient line of warriors, the Samurai and their struggle with the Emperor

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Zen Cats
Wendy Diamond

AF Bookshelf – Zen Cats

    Zen Cats Photographs by Yoshiyuki Yaginuma / Text by Jana Martin / Abbeville Press Publishers In sacred temples and lush gardens throughout Japan, Yoshiyuki Yaginuma photographs cats because, he says, he and his camera are called by them. “I can’t explain the feeling of being called by a cat

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