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When I arrived in Japan in 1977 as an assistant English instructor for Princeton-in-Asia, I expected to stay six months to a year. Instead, I fell in love with the country, began my career, married and had three children.

Japanese culture has always fascinated me, and early on I developed an interest in Kabuki and other forms of traditional theater. For several years I worked at the Kabuki-za as a Kabuki commentator for the English language earphone guide. Each month I prepared a commentary that was broadcast during performances at the Kabuki-za for the benefit of foreign visitors and other non-Japanese speakers in the audience. I have also practiced Aikido for over nearly three decades, and I am currently an instructor at Kuwamori Dojo in Tokyo.

In the professional area, for the last twenty odd years I have been working as an English teacher and tenured faculty member of the Eigo Kyouiku Kenkyujou (ELEC), a nonprofit organization chartered by the Ministry of Education. In 1997 I got my M. A. in Linguistics (TESOL) from the University of Surrey in Great Britain.

For almost as long I have been working for Yazaki Corporation as a Senior Consultant and Web Administrator, responsible for advertising and promotional materials, product brochures and catalogues, the Yazaki News in-house newsletter, proofreading, translation and other projects.

To provide the above and other services, my wife and I established Purity Co., Ltd. in 1997. My half of the company provides Internet-based solutions for business (proofreading, translation (Japanese to/from English), copywriting, editing and Web site content), and in the field of education, English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, syllabus design and curriculum development services. The "better half" of the company produces concerts, events, and the CD albums of my wife, ethnic fusion artist Celia Dunkelman.

Well, that about does it for a capsule history of the last few decades.

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