Jon Johanning, Thank you for your comments. I wrote: >>One point to make sure: abandonment of one country's language(eg Japanese >>language) leads to abandonment of its culture automatically(e.g. Japanese >>music and others). Do you believe this or not? I don't. Since we have >>many funs in western music, and I believe many(?) classic music funs in >>the world who know Takemitsu than those in Japan! We also have many Takemitsu fun in Japan also, though his music is not so often played, as far as I know. And Jon responded: >One thing that disappointed me when I first went to Japan was that NHK's >radio music programs were almost entirely Western music (mostly classical), >while I had been anticipating getting the chance to hear a lot of native, >traditional Japanese music. Probably we lost something and got another. I cann't tell correctly. Now, I am considering like this; don't we stop naming Western/Eastern(this is a funny word, since earth is round!) music or North/South music, instead of call them music of earth(not necessary calling "universe", so far, until Martians bring their music to us). Next century, I hope we will start non-geopolitic and impersonal music(and arts, I contains Haiku) at least in our mind. N.Inoue