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Mariko Oi (大井 真理子, Ōi Mariko, born 14 December 1981) is a Japanese bilingual journalist based in Singapore, who has worked for the BBC since 2006, when she became the network's first Japanese reporter. [1] [2]
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
The Caporales is a traditional Bolivian dance originated in Los Yungas of La Paz.Caporales were created and presented to the public for the first time in 1969 by the Estrada Pacheco brothers, who were inspired in the character of the 'Caporal' who is the overseer of the black slaves and was usually mixed race, wore boots and held a whip, a dance that belongs to the region of the Yungas ...
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.It is the corporation's second flagship channel, and it covers a wide range of subject matter, incorporating genres such as comedy, drama and documentaries.
Mariko was born in 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. She started dancing at the age of three, trained by Hiroshi Ohno who is a disciple of Baku Ishii, a pioneer of modern dance in Japan, and by Takaya Eguchi, another master teacher who studied with Mary Wigman. [citation needed] She established her own dance studio in 1952. [1] [2]
Civilisations is a 2018 British art history television documentary series produced by the BBC in association with PBS as a follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. Individual episodes are presented by Simon Schama, Mary Beard, and David Olusoga, [1] with music composed by Tandis Jenhudson. [2]
Its chief importance in popular culture is as the main figure of the annual Alasitas fair, a cultural event that happens every January 24 in La Paz, Bolivia. [2] The Ekeko is a traditional god of luck and prosperity popular in the western region of Bolivia .
It is located in the capital of La Paz, two blocks east of the Prado. [3] Operated by the National Institute of Archaeology, a specialized agency of the Deputy Minister of Culture, it is said to be the most prominent museum in Bolivia. [4] The museum represents the cultural antecedents of the Bolivian people from the pre-Columbian era.