In 2010 Anton (20) took an apartment off campus with a friend for his sophomore year at USF. His Tokyo summer internship at RAGE was a great success. He’s now officially a business major and worked part time at the San Francisco Japan Town video shop.
Thor (18) visited colleges on the west coast in June and is now in his senior year at ASIJ. His summer internship with Cartoon Network involved translating for the integration of a newly acquired company into Turner Broadcasting’s Japan operations. He’s studying hard to get into his first choice – University of Washington in Seattle; he’s already accepted at USF and Hofstra.
Naomi’s students at Sacred Heart middle school sewing class continue to inspire her. She has a regular round of tennis weekly and has taken up golf again with a new set of Taylor Made clubs. She has also begun a new career as costume designer for ASIJ’s plays. The first batch of fish have all died, so she’s restarted with three more.
Paul continues FTSE work throughout Asia Pacific focused on major pensions and sovereign wealth funds. He also specializes in helping ETF managers launch funds based on custom FTSE indices. In June Paul and Thor shared a week of campus visits in Portland, Seattle and San Francisco, then he and Naomi visited Norm and Barb Quinn on St Thomas & St John. Paul and Kimiko Owens celebrated their 60th with a big Izu party featuring flamenco dancers and a jazz band with Hideaki Yoshioka on piano.
The photo is of a noren Naomi made for the entrance to the restaurant where the Aka Tora 60th birthday was held. Anton and Thor got a shock seeing it hanging there!
This last picture is of Naomi with our good friend Mayumi Jones at the Masseys' party celebrating their second departure from Japan. This time to Sydney.
