Hello!
I am originally from San Diego, CA. I am a graduate from UCLA and from Temple University, Japan (TUJ).
I live in Tokyo, Japan and have been editing and writing Wikipedia articles since March 2006.
Interests: travelling, photography, Japan, SE Asia, China, languages and tennis.
Travel: been to five continents and 46 countries and 16 time zones.
I am focusing on in initiating and editing articles on languages, college football, animals (especially reptiles and marsupials), Southeast Asia, Japan and topics related to J.R.R Tolkien.
About myself
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Flag_Japan_template.svg/45px-Flag_Japan_template.svg.png) | This user lives in Japan. この利用者は日本に住んでいます。 |
馬 | This user was born in the year of the Horse. | ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Horse.svg/43px-Horse.svg.png) |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/43px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png) | This user has made over 12,000 edits to Wikipedia. |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Macintosh_iBook.jpg/40px-Macintosh_iBook.jpg) | This user contributes using a Macintosh computer. |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Cyprus-topographic_map-en.svg/50px-Cyprus-topographic_map-en.svg.png) | This user is interested in maps. |
PH-2 | This user is able to take good-quality photographs. |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/No_smoking_symbol.svg/40px-No_smoking_symbol.svg.png) | This user does not smoke. |
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