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Born in Tokyo in 1945. Went to a Japanese primary school, English grammar school (journalist father assigned to London), and American high schools in Rome and Tokyo, graduating from International Christian University in Tokyo in 1966 to join Reuters news agency in London. Worked for Reuters in London, Rome, Washington, D.C., and Paris until 1970. After a period of playing guitar music, joined the English-language daily Singapore Monitor in 1981. Worked for the Monitor, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, and the Singapore Economic Development Board, then became the founding editor of the Japanese-language edition of Silver Kris, Singapore Airlines’ inflight magazine. Moved with family to Vancouver in 1997, where he has worked as a translator, language instructor, columnist, and occasional reporter up to now.
Updated February 2015