Professor of area studies in Yamaguchi Prefectural University, Japan. Head of the Comittee for Conservation of Kaminoseki Biodiversity, Ecological Society of Japan. A member of the Amnesty International. Sc. D., Ecological Anthropologist. Stayed in Iriomote Island, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, and Navarra, Spain. He speaks Takaokaben (Dialect of Toyama), Kyotoben, Uchinaayamatuguchi (Okinawan variety of Japanese), Congo Swahili, Kenyan English, Gabonese French and Spanish with a mixture of some Basque.

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