Brief Biography

 

    I was born in Portsmouth, England, 1976, but I soon moved to Valencia, where I grew up. I graduated from Valencia University in 1999, where I majored in English Philology. 

    Ever since I was a high school student I had a strong interest in Japan. That interest first started through the world of Japanese comics and cartoons, and that later on evolved towards a fascination on the Japanese culture and society in general. For that reason I tried to combine my studies in high school and university with the study of Japanese language. I felt that knowing the language could be the key that might open many of the doors of the world that attracted my attention years ago.

    I was not mistaken, for in 1999, just a month after my graduation, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs chose me to join the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program (JET) thanks to which I would be working for three years in a Japanese local authority office as a Coordinator for International Relations between Spain and Japan.

    After the contract with the JET Program ended, I was hired for 2 years by the Tokyo branch of the Valencia porcelain company Lladró.

    From 2005 I have been working as a Spanish language and culture teacher at the Spanish department of the Himeji Dokkyo University, close to the Osaka and Kobe area.

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