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Hunter Araki Loyd
Hunter Was born in Thousand Oaks CA. 1985, Raised in Westlake and Newbury Park, He lived in the suburbs most of his life. He Graduated High School with a Industrial Technology major's Program. After High School he went to Japan in the Shigaraki Mountains as a Religous trainee for 6 months in 2004. During his work there he learned teachings and worked in three different Departments. The first Department was Gardner for 3 months. The next was Facility Keeping Department which would clean and organize the meeting rooms and clean the 2 floors of Guest rooms. He was in this department for 2 months before heading to a small Island to help with duties there. The island was home to several other volunteers and would entail such duties as gardening and cleaning. Upon his return he went to Moorpark College where he earned his AA in general Liberal arts and transferred to California State University Northridge. He studied abroad to Ibaraki, Mito Japan where he was paid as an English Conversational Partner. The duties entailed acting as a Teachers Assitant in Classrooms, meeting with small groups to have discussions in english, and group english discussions in High School. After returning he graduated in 2009 with a BA in Lang. and Cultures with an emphasis in Japanese, minor Political Science. He started Taiko (japanese Drumming) in 2001 and has continued with Makoto taiko until 2006, He continued to play with CSUN's club Jishin Taiko until 2010. His position with Makoto taiko was Youth Leader. In Jishin he was Treasure from 2008-2009 and Internal Director from 2009-2010. His fortune started while in Moorpark College working as a Web Designer and SEO position. In 2009 he started a partnership Corporation with his boss offering the same services that Hunter had provided for the small company. Now he owns 4 cars, 2 homes, and started his own Taiko group "Karyudo Taiko" (Hunter Drum) which has over 50 members 15 of which are paid full time performers.