1956-1961 At Columbia University, I taught Japanese in the Department of Chinese and Japanese and English in the Department of English.

1961 The United States Air Force requested my services in Japan to teach English to pilots in the Japanese Self-Defense Force Academies in Komaki and Nara.

1962 I returned to Tokyo at the request of Mr. Akira Morita of the Sony Corporation and established what is now called the Sony Language Laboratory. I worked for the Sony Corporation until l970.

1962-70 I traveled for the Sony Corporation to many universities from Hokkaido to Kyushu, teaching Japanese English teachers how to prepare and use material for language laboratory use.

1968-1970 I was music critic for the Asahi Evening News, an English language newspaper. I have studied music composition since my high school days.

1970 I left Sony to become a professor at Toyo Eiwa Women's Junior College, where I taught for fifteen years.

I continued to study music composition privately with Mr. Klaus Prinzheim who was a student of the German composer, Gustav Mahler.

1975 I won honorable mention for five songs I composed for the Annual International Music Competition in Naples, Italy.

1970-80 Several of my short stories were published in “Inside Japan,” an English language publication. A novel was published in Germany by the Bertelsman Publishing Company.

1983 Thirty of my compositions were played at a concert in Tokyo’s Bunkakaikan Hall. In the years following, my compositions were performed live on the radio by the Japanese Broadcasting Company and by various soloists in their recitals.

Concomitant with my duties at Toyo Eiwa Women¹s Jr. College, I was English Language Advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, coaching the successive Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry on their speeches in English to the United Nations and similar organizations, as well as editing communications between this Japanese ministry and the corresponding ministries abroad, translating and interpreting.

1985 I left Toyo Eiwa Women's Junior College to become a professor of English at Shoin Women's Junior College.

1991-1999 I taught Japanese at the American Culture Center in Tokyo.

2000 I retired to Seattle, Washington.

2003 The Northwest Symphony Orchestra of Seattle performed my "Ballad for Orchestra." You can hear snippets of this composition on the site.

I speak Japanese, French, Russian. and Spanish. (I've composed several songs to the poetry of Pablo Neruda, whose poetry has inspired me as none before ever has!)