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| EDUCATION | ||
| September 1994 to April 2003 | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Graduate School of Public and International Affairs | Ph.D. awarded April 2003. Dissertation entitled "The Transition from Bureaucrats to Aristocrats: The Role of Changing Political Career Path's on Japanese Financial Administrative Reform, 1955-2003" |
| September 1993 to May 1994 | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | Department of Political Science, Ph. D. course |
| April 1991 to January 1992 | HOSEI UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan | Social Science Department, Faculty of Political Science Soviet Studies Course |
| April 1989 to January 1992 | SOPHIA UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan | Foreign Language Department, Faculty of International Relations, Master's Degree awarded April 1991 (Thesis on North Korean Leadership Succession Problem. First Westerner in department to write thesis in Japanese.) |
| October 1985 to July 1986 | SOPHIA UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan | Foreign Language Department, Faculty of Comparative Cultures International Relations classes |
| January 1982 to July 1983 | SOPHIA UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan | Foreign Language Department, Faculty of Comparative Cultures Exchange Program with Hawaii Loa |
| August 1980 to May 1984 | HAWAII LOA COLLAGE, Kaneohe, Hawaii | B.A. in Linguistics |
| WORK EXPERIENCE: | ||
| April 1996 thru present | THOMSON FINANCIAL NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL, Tokyo | Translator, Editor, Systems Developer for Japan Watch product, which is a daily digest of the Japanese financial press. |
| February 1993 to August 1993 | IR JAPAN, Tokyo | Translator, copywriter |
| February 1992 to February 1993 | NATIONAL PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION | Translator |
| April 1992 to October 1992 | NIPPON LIFE INSURANCE, Tokyo | Researcher, Translator |
| April 1989 to August 1995 | THOMSON FINANCIAL NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL, Tokyo | Political and Economic Analyst/Reporter Bureau Chief, July-October, 1990 |
| June 1988 to December 1988 | ARLINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Arlington, VA | Japanese instructor |
| January 1988 to August 1988 | JESSE JACKSON '88 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, Washington, D.C. | Press Relations, Organization of Activities for Volunteers, Research, etc. |
| January 1985 to July 1987 | MASUDA SHINGAKU JUKU, Tokyo | Instructor/Translator |
| PERSONAL | ||
| 1. Fluent Japanese, Functional French and Korean | ||
| 2. Spent several months in 1984 and again in 1987 traveling through Europe, the Soviet Union, China, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere | ||
| 3. Published master's thesis in Korea and World Affairs, Spring 1992 | ||
| 4. Delegate to the 1984 Hawaiian Democratic Party State Convention and the 1988 Virginia Democratic Party State Convention | ||
| 5. Familiar with Perl, Pascal, HTML, and Unix Shell computer languages | ||
