My Life Experience and Hitory of Yokohama
Jul 02,2016
*It could be interesting to read this resume beginning from the end of it.
June 2016
Prepared to relocate and reestablish my father’s company Y. O. Trading, LLC. to
New Haven, Connecticut
March 20 2016
Went to Tucson Symphony Orchestra Concert (Carmina Burana by Carl Orff) at Tucson
Music Hall in Tucson, AZ
Carmina Burana
March 19
Went to Dance & Desert Festival 2016 by Ballet Tucson
March 6
Went to the opera “Don Giovanni” at Tucson Music Hall
Opera Don Giovanni
January 23 2016
Went to Emanuel Ax Piano Concert (Beethoven) at Centennial Hall in Tucson
January 15
Went to Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Concert (Mozart, Elgar) at Centennial Hall
February 2015
Became a citizen of the United States
May 2013
Graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors Collage
with cum laude
April 2012
National Society of Leadership and Success member
August 2011
GRE Quantitative Reasoning score 159 (% below is 75 %)
Transferred to University of Massachusetts Amherst
Golden Key International Honor Society member
September 2006 – May 2009
University of Massachusetts Boston
February 2006 – May 2006
Attended open-to-public lecture forums and conferences at Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Memorial Church and School of Education
April 2006
Attended the Nobel Prize Laureate physics lecture (Harvard University professor) at University of Massachusetts Boston
March 2005
Baptism at Memorial Church of Harvard University
2002 December
Had worked full time for fourteen years without any unauthorized absence nor paid leave
1999 – 2002
Was advised by a computer system corporation to work in the United States by studying
UNIX operating system, and worked for short term projects at Japan Racing Association, Japan Railways, Tokyo District Court, Sprint PCS (through Sanyo Telecommunications), etc., by studying Windows, Microsoft Office, Homepage Builder, Windows NT, Basic, Visual Basic, C, C++, C#, Assembler, Visual C, Java, JavaScript, SQL, UNIX, Linux, Access, Oracle. [$4,000/m - $6,000/m]
Went on business trips to -
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Seoul
Sprint Headquarter in Kansas City (Sprint PCS)
1989 – 2001
Watched NHK “Journey To the Lives In the World (Sekai kurashi no tabi)” by Akira Takahashi, “Invitation to Japanese classics (Koten he no shoutai)” by Masako Mitamura, “Seeing the World Through History (Rekishi de miru Sekai)” and “Seeing Japan Through History (Rekishi de miru Nihon) lectures every week (30 minutes/lecture/week), and “Journey to Chinese Poems (Kanshi Kikou)” from 6:15 to 6:25 am Every Sunday
December 2000 – January 2001
Visited Twin Cities (MN) and Detroit (MI) and homestay in Toronto
1995 - 1999
English teacher at ECC Yobikou (Preparatory School), 20 – 80 students per class
[$60/h - $85/h]
Preparatory School in Japan
August 1997
My class became one of the recommended classes at ECC Yobikou
Wrote the textbook for the summer basic English classes at ECC Yobikou
1992 - 1997
Watched NHK Educational Television Human University Program (NHK Ningen Daigaku, each 30 minutes/week * 12 week), The heart of Japanese calligraphy (“Sho no kokoro” 1992) by Bakusan Sakaki The world of the particle: The small universe within an atom (“Soryuushi no sekai: Genshi no naka no shouuchu” 1996) by Saburo Honma, Women in the Tale of Genji (“Genji monogatari no naka no jyoseitachi” 1997) by Jyakucho Setouchi
A famous professor on the NHK Human University
Japanese calligraphy textbook by Bakusan Sakaki
Professor Jyakucho Setouchi
Received a passing deviation value (goukaku level hensachi) in the Japanese history subject in the Z-Kai Tokyo University entrance examination course, and so far achieved the passing grades in all the required subjects (English, Japanese (modern, classic and classic Chinese poetry) and Japanese history) for the Tokyo University later term exam (the advanced selection for the major) in the Z-Kai course
1993 – 1996
Teacher at ECC Junior Nagaokaecchuu classroom and Kamitoba classroom
Owner, manager and teacher at Fushimi Eisuu Classroom (my private cram school)
1987 – 1996
Watched on Sundays NHK historical drama series (each 45 minutes/week * 45 weeks) “Dokuganryuu Masamune (16 - 17th century, 1987),” “Kasuga no tsubone (16 - 17th century, 1989),” “ Taiheiki (14th century, 1991),” “Hideyoshi (16th century, 1996)”
1991 – 1993
English Teacher at a cram school Nohkai Center of Kyouiku Souken (One of the successor institutions of "tekijyuku," a prestigious school in later Edo era of Japan)
A cram school in Japan
1992
Began reading NRSV The Holy Bible
1992
Became too busy in teaching at Nohkai Center, and decided to withdraw from the Keio
University correspondence education
46th place in English, 6 place in total examination (English and Japanese)
Eiken Jyun-1- kyuu (EIKEN STEP Grade Pre-1 CEFR level B2)
1989 – 1990
Watched NHK Educational Television Citizens University Program (NHK Shimin Daigaku, each 45 minutes/week * 12 week), The personality of Masaoka Shiki and the fascination of his haiku world (“Shiki sanmyaku” 1989) by Toshinori Tsubouchi, The report by Iwakura Mission - The account and observation of the United States and Europe (“Iwakura shisetsudan no seiyou kenbun” 1990) by Toru Haga
1989
Read Summary of Bible
December 1988 – January 1989
Took a correspondence education course in the Japanese language instruction
June – August 1988
Harvard Summer School English as a Second Language Program
April – June
Studied Linguaphone Japan intermediate course
January – April
Studied Linguaphone Japan CAN (Standard Course)
Received Fundamental Information Technology Engineer ( Dai-2-shu
jyouhou-shori gijyutsusha ) qualification
1987
Read the New Testament and the Old Testament (the Nihon Seisho Kyoukai version)
Guest speaker in Kouji Tannninsha License Course radio program on radio tannpa station
(short wave radio), current Radio Nikkei
September 1986
Enrolled in the Keio University School of Law (undergraduate) correspondence
education, but soon realized that the degree would not be accomplishable while I was working, and contemplated whether I should quit the job and study full time, or whether I should go to the United States to study
1984 – 1988
RICOH Service Inc. Customer Engineer Facsimile machine instructor and office work in
Tokyo [$19,000/y - $3,000/y including $80/m *6 licenses and qualifications
compensation]
Customers include -
Haneda International
Airport Building
Bank of Japan
Tokyo Stock Market
Roppongi and Daikanyama, districts of embassies
Mitsukoshi Department Store headquarter and the Central Avenue in Nihonbashi on which it is located (Our customers were in more than 2/3 of these buildings – 3/1 to half of which I visited)
Old “IBM building” that has the shape of a silicon computer chip
Tokyo Station hotel
Tsukiji fishi market
Japanese Telephone Facility Engineer Analogue Grade 1 (Kouji-tanninsha Analogue-1-
shu) License
April 1986
A top contractor (negotiator) prize at RICOH Service Inc. and awarded a free Okinawa
travel and stay at Yamaha Haimurubushi
Japanese Telephone Facility Engineer Digital Grade 1 (Kouji-tanninsha Digital-1-shu)
License
1970 (1963) – 1982 [1st grade (1 year old) – 18 years old]
“NHK Igo no jikan”
Listening to and watching NHK Igo game course (“Igo no jikan”) and Shougi course (“Shougi (Japanese chess) no jikan”), spent morning and afternoon hours (10:00 am - 2:00 pm) and did homework on Sundays
“NHK Igo no jikan”
1979 – 1982
Yokohama Municipal Sakuragaoka Senior High School
1981 [12th grade]
Cheerleaded against Takeshi Aikou (Yokohama Senior High School, baseball critic and professional baseball player at the Lotte Orions and the Chunichi Dragons) and for
Hideyuki Awano (Sakuragaoka Senior High School, professional baseball player at the Kintetsu Buffaloes and the Yomiuri Giants)
1978 – 1982 [9th grade – 12th grade]
Tutor for three primary school students (mathematics and English) [$80/month/student]
1979 [10th grade]
Qualification for Japanese Archery class 2 (2 kyuu, one in 400 – 600 Japanese have this qualification)
Japanese archery
1976 – 1979 [7th grade – 9th grade]
Yokohama Municipal Sakaigi Junior High School, GPA of many trimesters was 4.44 and the highest was 4.55 the second semester of the 8th grade at the school (The second best public junior high school in the city of Yokohama, the second most advanced city in Japan).
Grading on a curve
5 – 7 % 2 – 24 %
4 – 24 % 1 – 7 %
3 – 38 %
1976 – 1979 [7th grade – 9th grade]
Tennis club (everyday) and cheerleading club (Thursday and every day in autumn)
c. 1979
My father establishes a trading company Y. O. Trading, LLC. as side business to his
principal occupation at Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, LTD.
January 1979 [9th grade]
Brought my poems to the headquarter of Sanrio Company (a company who sells fancy character goods (such as “Hello Kitty (Kitty White)”) for negotiation to publish them as an anthology, but it was denied. They said “The poems are too normal”
1978 [9th grade]
Recruitment of cheerleaders by a 12th grade student at Sakuragaoka Senior High School
and Sakaigi Junior High School graduate for the high school cheerleading club
1978 [9th grade]
Eiken 3- kyuu (EIKEN STEP Grade 3 CEFR level A1 Junior high school graduates)
June [8th grade]
Leader of the ping pong team of the class for The School sports event and my class
became the (actual) champion of the 9th grade (8 classes)
1977 [8th grade]
Listened to NHK radio Zoku Kiso Eigo (Continued Basic English) course from 6:30 to 6:45 am every day
1977 [8th grade]
Class leader
1977 [7th grade]
Took Amateur Radio Operator license (HAM license), and communicated and talked through the radio equipment with adult amateur radio operators throughout Japan
Amateur radio station equipment
1976 [7th grade]
Listened to NHK radio Kiso Eigo (Basic English) course from 6:00 to 6:15 am every day
1976 [7th grade]
Ran for Student Council secretary at Sakaigi Junior High School, did election speech on
the school TV and lost big
1970 – 1979 [1st grade – 10th grade]
My father made the house yard into a farming field to grow pumpkins, tomatoes,
eggplants, cucumbers, spinaches, turnips, cabbages, corns, carrots and so on weekends
while an elite salary man on weekdays
1968 – 1976
Watched on Sundays NHK historical drama series (each 45 minutes/week * 45 weeks) “Ryoma ga yuku (19th century, 1968),” “Ten to chi to (19th century, 1969),” “Mominoki ha nokotta (17th century, 1970),” “Shin Heike monogatari (12th century, 1972),” “Kunitori monogatari (16th century, 1973),” “ (19),” “Katsu Kaishu (19th century, 1974),” “Genroku Taiheiki (18th century, 1975),” “Kaze to kumo to niji to (10th century, 1976)”
NHK historical drama series
Yokohama Municipal Sakaigi Elementary School
January 1976 [6th grade]
"Kuretake" prize in Chinese calligraphy contest (kakizome contest) by Tokyo Shodo
Kyouikukai
1975 [6th grade]
Enrolled in the Tokyo Shodo Kyouikukai shuuji (Chinese Calligraphy) correspondence education and get qualification for class 5 (5 kyuu)
My poem was published twice in the newsletter of a home study correspondence course “Popy” by Zenkaken (Kyoto: Zennnippon katei kyouiku kenkyuukai)
November 1975 [6th grade]
Ran for Student Council secretary at Sakaigi Primary School and lost by one vote
November [6th grade]
My water paint was posted at Hodogaya-ward Elementary Schools Exhibition
Summer 1975 [6th grade]
When Queen Elizabeth visited Japan, we went to Tokyo to salute the Queen from the
crowd.
ca. 1975 [6th grade]
Self learned early "hentai gana," ( old "hiragana," Japanese writing system of 9 –
13th century))
Hentaigana in the “hyakunin isshu” card game
April 1975 [6th grade]
A student at Hokkaido University introduced to me the university life and university
mathematics via our parents
April 1974 – August 1975 [5th grade – 6th grade]
Delivered 200 Asahi Newspapers for two hours through Monday to Saturday and learn to
save money in a bank compound savings account (10 – 12 years old)
June 1975 [6th grade]
Top 25 % in a Nichinouken simulation test for prestigious junior high school entrance
examinations by studying only a few problems on Jiyuujizai mathematics textbook
November 1974 [4th grade]
Read stories in front of the class every morning before the teacher came to the classroom
(9 years old)
1973 – 1976 [4th grade – 6th grade]
Member of school handicraft club
1972 – 1976 [3rd grade – 6th grade]
Class leader
1971 – 1975 [2nd grade – 5th grade]
My Chinese calligraphy writings have been posted in Hodogaya-ku Elementary Schools
Exhibition every year
April 1972 [3rd grade]
Began to take piano lesson
1971 [2nd grade]
Began watching Sesame Street
August 1970
Sesame Street
Moved to Yokohama
1968 – 1969
Lutheran Kindergarten
March 1968
The highest IQ score since the beginning of the kindergarten
ca 1967
Left alone overnight at my relatives house in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, near U.S. Yokosuka Navy Base
Yokosuka Navy Base
ca 1965
Moved to Dennenchofu, Tokyo
May 1963
I was born in Hakata, Fukuoka
April 1959
My father received a degree in physics at Waseda University in Tokyo
c. 1954 – c. 1955
My mother went to Nagasaki Prefectural College, and studies English literature and
French
1945
My mother (ten years old) received sweets from U.S. Air force officers in Nagasaki
August 1945
My mother went through atomic bomb in Nagasaki
ca 1944
My father went to Dongbei, Northeast China, in the evacuation of civilians in
WWII
July 1935
My mother was born
February 1935
My father was born
June 2 1859
Port of Yokohama opened to foreign trades
July 1858
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed between the United States and Japan
1953
Commodore Perry arrived at the south of Yokohama, Kanagawa, to open Japan, which
had held a policy of national seclusion, and met the imperial commissioners
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Carmina Burana
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Opera Don Giovanni
Sprint Headquarter in Kansas City
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KAIST in Seoul
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Preparatory School in Japan
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NHK Human University
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A cram School in Japan
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Bank of Japan
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Tokyo Stock Market
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Haneda International Airport Building
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NEC Town in Shiba, Minato-ward
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Akasaka hotels forest
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Roppongi and Daikanyama
Old IBM Building
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Mitsukoshi Department Store
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Tokyo Station Hotel
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Tsukiji Fish Market
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“Igo no jikan”
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Japanese archery
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Amateur radio station equipment
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NHK historical drama series
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Hentaigana in the “hyakunin isshu” card game
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Sesame Street
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Yokosuka Navy Base
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Arrival of Commodore Perry at Yokohama
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