HIROKO KOSHINO

Yomiuri Shimbun Kansai edition started running a  serial article titled "Eeyan! Kansai" (Nice! Kansai region) featuring Japanese traditional puppet play "bunraku" from Monday, March 30th. Hiroko Koshino stated the importance of cultivating and enriching humanity by seeing real traditions and stimulating one's right side of the brain from childhood. "Bunraku" puppet play is one of her personal recommendations for children to educate and broaden their future abilities.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Senior High School Baseball Championship Tournament – people are always highly impressed by the students’ profound performances year after year.

In 1998, Hiroko Koshino commented on the students’ baseball uniform, calling them “unique and exclusive in colour”, in a column in the Asahi Newspaper titled ‘Restructuring, If It Were Me’.

Many years later again, today, she presents her opinions from a point of view as a fashion designer.

Ayako Koshino is a pioneer in Japanese fashion as well the mother of the three Koshino sisters. Her story finally becomes a book, in the series '10 People Carve out a Path to a New Era in the World’, published for kids by Gakken.

Having lived through World War II, Ayako experienced success, setbacks and a multitude of challenges – her positive attitude is an undoubted encouragement for children to be strong and have hope.

The second series of the book carries an impressive lineup of celebrities which include The Beatles, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Picasso and of course, the renowned Ayako Koshino.

The book is available in bookstores nationwide – don’t forget to get your copy and enjoy!

The Mainichi Newspaper will run a daily column between the 01st and 20th of February 2014, titled ‘Old and New’, to mark the 50,000th issue of the newspaper since the Meiji period in 1873.

Hiroko Koshino appears in the article of Tuesday, 10th February 2014, talking about her significant works across the creative realm, motivations for new challenges, the ideal newspaper and so on and so forth.

Don’t forget to get your copy and enjoy the article!

http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/02/10/20150210ddm041040178000c/001.html

On May 28, 2014, Ms. Chie Koike, former President of Bunka Fashion College and Godmother of Japanese fashion, unfortunately passed away. Hiroko Koshino expressed her sincerest condolences on behalf of her graduating class, at an intimate service held in Koike’s memorial, at the Bunka Gakuen Hall on the 09th of July. Following the same, Shukan Asahi ran a feature article in their December 19th Issue titled ‘Memorial Speeches of Renowned People’, where in you can find the entire text of Koshino’s speech.