User:JapanNative

Born in Kyoto in 1952, I grew up in post-war Japan. Through its every-twenty-year-or-so pro-western/anti-western cycles, I have watched Japan change over the years into a renewed world player. In all my 60 years of going back and forth between Japan and the USA, I have spent a total of 33 years in Japan, and the other 27 in the USA, giving me a cross-cultural picture of both countries. Deep discussions with my cultural anthropologist wife — who herself has lived significant portions of her life in Nigeria, USA, and Japan — has afforded me added insight from her cross-cultural analyses.