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About me

I'd decided to try this Opera machine in 2010.

My interest is in wildlife :

My big memory is the wildlife in the Rocky mountains. In my undergraduate, I had enjoyed outdoor activities and visited several national parks. One time, while I was traveling, I had seen a herd of prong horn running in an open country and felt oh, is this Africa! because they resembled the antelope of Africa.

My childhood dream was to work with wildlife outdoor, and unexpectedly it had become true after studying abroad, coming back to Japan and when I had started a field research in a Japanese graduate school. My outdoor research subject was the impacts of ungulates on marsh plants. Although my place of the dream for a work place was a little different, Africa, the research field was a marsh in a subalpine area surrounded by the abundant nature like trees, flowers, wildlife and insects. The opportunity gave me a lot of learning experiences such as how to do outdoor field research, how to identify plant, how to write documents and so on.
My nice colleagues, fun international friends and professors had helped me do the field work and the research. Although at the field, I had to struggle with mosquitoes, a pile of simple tasks and long travels, it was a great journey.

There seems to be a lesson I've learned at the field, that was the wildlife is not easy to find, but easier to encounter, and there are more plants than any other species!


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My work

In my previous work,

　- Worked for a Japanese representative office for a overseas company.
　　 (Good memory: communication with the Dutch. Their English was excellent!)
　- Book seller at a bookstore.
　　 (Good memory: Sold English books and worked at a new bookstore with very large floor.)