I live in Yokohama, a port town near Tokyo. I will be 40 years old this year. Have a wife and three children. My wife is a good partner, though she is a devotee to her job in a American subsidiary chemical company. As we live close to my sister family, my apartment is always lively. I share all the housework with my wife. I usually cook dinner, take and bring back kids to and from nurseries. I proud of sharing all the housework equally with my wife - or, in other words, we both do not do much. I like to listen to her talk about her job. I work full time as a high-school English teacher. I do not spend a lot of time on boring textbooks these days. I make up my original handouts and I teach about peace, discrimination, development, environment and other stuff I think important. As for People to People Aid, I became an executive member (which means I have to spend both my time and money a lot) about 5 years ago, after I worked as a volunteer interpreter in a conference. Everytime I visit our partner NGOs and meet people there, I am quite impressed. Although they are economically poor, they have something very important in their hearts - which, many Japanese have lost on our way to become a "developed" country. Japan is not the first runner of the Asian countries, as many people believe. We have a lot of things we must learn from them. I want to have a good and true relations with the people there.
The page design is stolen from the home page of an architect Motoe Masashige, who I respect since he was a sutudent in my high school. Thanks, Motoe.