President

Intercom Co.

1-25-1 Fukasawa
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158

TEL: (03) 5707-5957
FAX: (03) 5707-5895
E-MAIL: intercom1@attglobal.net

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  automotive industry; foreign corporations in Japan; US competitiveness
• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  cross-cultural filmmaking; film production; mass media: coverage of Japan in foreign media
• EDUCATION
  education and society
• HISTORY
  business history; history of US-Japan relations; World War II
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  trade policy
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  gender, sex roles, women; intercultural communications; Japanese perceptions of the US; racial and psychological aspects of US-Japan relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Tokyo Bureau Chief, San Francisco Chronicle, 1988-91; Tokyo Bureau Chief, McGraw-Hill World News, 1983-88; Reporter, Department Manager, San Francisco Chronicle, 1976-83; Consultant, 1972-75; Reporter, Japan Bureau, Pacific Stars & Stripes, 1967-72; Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle 1963-66.

IN JAPAN: 1983-present, 1967-72 - employment; 1975-76 - Fulbright; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Americans Who Don't Understand Japanese; Japanese Who Don't Understand Americans," (with Kato) (TBS Britannica Publishing Co., 1990, re-published 1999); "Japan: Remaking a Nation," Business Week (July, 1987); The Business of Understanding: Japan and the United States in Today's World (PBS Series on "The Japanese Film", 1975).