Word: toshi
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Stone, a singer-songwriter who has worked with Lenny Kravitz, D'Angelo and Mary J. Blige, also sings the praises of Kubota, whom she has known for three years. "Toshi Kubota is a talent to be reckoned with. None of us would work with anybody unless we felt that they were truly talented...
...Toshi Kubota always had a little bit of soul. Growing up in Japan's rural Shizuoka prefecture, where his parents still run a store near Mount Fuji, he watched Soul Train and, despite poor radio reception, strained to hear stations that played rhythm and blues...
...swinging Japanese are caught up in parapara. Toshi, black hair swooshing three inches off his blemish-free brow, has plenty of experience in parapara paradise as a bartendar at Isn't It? Watching his peers week after week dancing like automatons with a Tequila problem, Toshi has developed strong feelings. "I can't believe they find that dance fun?it makes me sick just looking...
...know if it's a myth," says computer science concentrator Toshi J. Clark '03, who took CS50 last semester. "[But] it gives incentive to do it by yourself...
Brown evokes the sleek surrealism of Tokyo--where dogs are rented by the hour and people eat green-tea tiramisu cake--with economical aplomb. Even better, he offsets such Tomorrowland aspects with lyrical images of Toshi's rural home, where women eat grilled eel while watching Audrey Hepburn and go looking for candleweed and ghost mushrooms. Toshi is as much a foreigner in Tokyo as any American might be, yet his two worlds are knit together with an exacting precision, with fishermen's nets "the color of dried persimmon," and an American's blanket having "the color of squid just...