by Peter | Jun 21, 2013 | ChinaRA, News, Recent Visitors
Members of the Troupe present the award at Min-On’s Melody Hall On April 1, in the middle of the Japan tour, Mr. Ma Xiaoming, director of the Cultural Exchange Department of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, accompanied by one of...
by Peter | Jun 21, 2013 | ChinaRA, Interviews
Expressing the Energetic Life Force of Daily Living Grand collaborative acrobatics entitled Binding Forces Min-On: Thank you very much for staging such wonderful performances every day. Your acrobatics, called zaji in Chinese (zatsugi in Japanese)—literally,...
by Peter | Jun 21, 2013 | ChinaRA, Features
Award-winning Lion Dance, Majestic Dignity This year, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Min-On Concert Association (founded in 1963), and in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the conclusion of the Peace and Friendship Treaty between Japan and the...
by Peter | Sep 4, 2012 | ChinaRA, Interviews
Friendship Year for Japan-China Exchanges Ambassador Cheng Yonghua Ambassador Cheng was among the first students to come to Japan under a Chinese government scholarship in 1975, studying at Soka University in Hachioji, Tokyo. The university was established by SGI...
by Peter | Sep 4, 2012 | ChinaRA, News
Mr. Hiromasa Ikeda (second from left) accepts the honorary title on behalf of his father, the Min-On founder On July 2, 2012, the Institute of the Shaanxi Provincial Song and Dance Theater from Xi’an, China, bestowed the title of Honorary President on Min-On founder...