born 1944
grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
As an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College in 1966, he was invited by a friend to join athree-month kayak trip up the coast of Japan from Shimonoseki to Tokyo, documented in National Geographic, 1966
Dartmouth College, B.A., Political Science
Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, B.A., Japanese Language and Literature
research on Edo-period (1603-1868) philosophy at the Aichi Prefectural University, in Nagoya, Japan
University of Washington, M.A., Japanese Language and Literature, 1979
son Matthew
daughter Michelle
currently lives in South Miami, Florida