I started out as an academic and then became a copywriter and translator. After living in Tokyo for 15 years, I got tired of the rat-race, and for five years, till 2004, my wife and I lived in a resort area known as Shonan (湘南), south of Yokohama on the very edge of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. The area has a wonderful climate and the air is cleaner than Tokyo's. Some days the sunlight has a clear Mediterranean quality, although the climate is not dry like the Mediterranean's.
More recently, my wife and I moved to Malaysia and have been fortunate enough to find an excellent location. Our neighbors are warm-hearted, honest people. As a matter of fact, the wonderful people of Malaysia are one of the country's attractions.
Interests
- Jazz, primarily the intensely creative period from Charlie Parker through John Coltrane
- Daoism
- Investment strategy
- Geopolitics
- Neo-catastrophism (also known as scientific catastrophism).
- Martin Luther