長谷川滋利さん Hasegawa Shigetoshi has pitched his way out of many tight spots in English.
Hasegawa:Someday, we gonna have like this, you know, the Japanese players are coming to the United States, and doing like this, that was my dream. That's. Dream come true right now.
ジャパニーズどりーむでもいいですけどアメリカンドリームをちゃんとモチベーションとして持ってそれでそれに向かっていくという。ベースボールでも。 Everything is the same. Baseball, English whatever, business, everything. You need a goal right here, and we're gonna step from here like this, one step, one step.
Wow, the exact message of this program.
奈良橋陽子さん A star of The Last Samurai, Watanabe Ken has been one of the best known Japanese in the world in the past few months. Here's the woman who taught this Oscar nominee English: producer Narahashi Yoko.
明石康さん Former UN Under-Secretary General Akashi Yasushi has traveled the world for 40 years. He knows a great deal about the big, wide world out there.
Akashi:Language is a very fragile means for people to understand each other. And so we should keep in mind that there are different cultures, different ways of thinking, different ways of understanding life. And so we have to always keep in mind that we are different from each other, and yet there may be something which also unites us. So the communication is a delicate balance between what unites us and what makes us different from each other.
綾戸智絵さん Ayado married an American, gave birth to a baby, got divorced, and was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 27. She lost her voice as a side effect - a fatal blow to her dream of being a jazz singer. But she accepted her fate and got on with her life.