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When I was younger and had to choose a university, all I knew was that I had to learn ‘something international.’ So, I went to…

I first came to Japan as a study abroad exchange student. That year changed my life, even though at first I didn’t know it would.…

Despite growing up in a small town in Texas, I always knew I would live overseas. I was the kid staring at maps, spinning globes…

Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I respond to the question, “So, how long have you lived in Japan?” Twenty years sounds like a…

After leaving my home town of Taipei, Taiwan, to study aboard in the United States at age 10, I received an American education from middle…

In my life, I’ve experience five personal ‘tsunamis’ that threatened to leave me broken, but instead gave me strength and led to the creation of…

I look through the windows of my Japanese home at the cityscape of Tokyo and I see how my life has been a series of…

“I wish I could be a part of such an energizing community!” I first learned about FEW when they held a special event at my…

Becoming a young international professional was perhaps fate (or en, 縁). I’m half Japanese and was born in Tokyo, but primarily grew up in the…