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Her voice echoes and deeply permeates deeply both soul and body.

(Moni Yosef / Director of the Arabic & Jewish Theater Center in Akko)

 

Yayoi's singing brings a feeling of nostalgia to my sense; as if her voice has existed throughout the ages...

(Randi Taguchi / author)

 

Her presence reminds us that what we accomplish in song is much more important than where we were born.

(Magazine of Ladino  ”Aki Yerushalaym”

 

 When she sang our piyut (Sephardic religious chanting), we were shocked (and then enchanted) to learn that she was from Japan and not a Sephardi Jew like ourselves!

(The Israeli newspaper  ”Israel Hayom!”)

2021/2
Web magazine “ISRAERU” interview article posted
<Japanese singer sings the essence of Sephardi music in Israel
 

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2019 7
"Dialogue between cross-border musicians" by Yoshito Sekiguchi
 "Klezmer music and Sephardic songs”
with Okuma Wataru and Yayoi Okaniwa
 

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2019/4    
 Latina Magazine in Japan
<Journey of  "LADIRINTO" by Yayoi Okaniwa>

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2017/9
Israel Radio: "Cafe Gibraltar"

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2017/9
Israel Kan-11 TV 
"Reconstruction of Piyut Music" https://www.youtube.com/watch?

2017/3
Israel Hayom newspaper 
(“Piyut Music Now”)

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2017/2
Tokyo FM radio  "Trance World Music Ways" 

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2016/12
Israeli radio Reshette Bet

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2016/10
Israel Hayom newspaper: Feature article

2016/6
landTV  Israel-Russian TV:
Feature guest in documentary program 

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2016/4
Bulletin Israel, Japan  Feature article

2015/11
Tokyo FM radio: "Trance World Music Ways"

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2013/2
NHK El Mundo: Feature guest 

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2012/11
Aki Yerushalaym
(World's only monthly magazine in Ladino, Judeo-Espanyol>
Feature Article 

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2012/4
Bulletin Israel, Japan
Feature article
2012/3
Record art " by Ongaku no Tomosha Co&Ltd.
(Record art semi-special edition) CD introduction
 
2012/2
Nikkei newspaper, Japan 
" Sephardic Jewish melody resonance with Japan " 

 

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