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Guides & Mentors Ken Wilkening Energy/Security/Environment Program Officer Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development Berkeley, California   Tell us about your job? What inspired you to pursue this career? I am a policy analyst. A policy analyst is a person who “analyzes policy;” who tries to figure out the best course of action for […]

Expedition Links Trade & Economics   Tokyo Bay Trade and economic resources Currency Exchange Track currency exchanges for the Japanese Yen and US Dollar, among other currencies. Irasshai Launch Pad for Japanese Studies, Business Section Articles on such topics as Japanese etiquette and business in a cultural context. Japan Links A comprehensive list of online […]

Expedition Links History & Culture   Tokyo Bay The Experience of Earthquakes Seismic Activity Mapping Search for earthquake activity by entering time frame, latitude and longitude. Great Kanto Earthquake,1923 Tokyo Earthquake Photographs and text about Tokyo’s 1923 devastating earthquake. US Geological Survey Map of Japan’s seismicity by depth, 1975–95. City of Yokohama Photographs of the […]

  Guides & Mentors Tetsuro Doshita Commander of the Security Affairs Office, Office of the Prime Minister Tokyo, Japan Tell us about your job. What inspired you to pursue this career? I am currently working at the Security Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat in Tokyo. Our office is in charge of drafting national defense policy and […]

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Guides & Mentors Peter Hayes Co-Executive Director, Nautilus Institute Berkeley, California Tell us about your job? What inspired you to pursue this career? I work with a group of inspired and dedicated people to make peace in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in conflict-prone places like the divided Korean peninsula; and to increase environmental sustainability in […]

Guides & Mentors Jim Hardwick Environmental Specialist, State of California, Department of Fish and Game Suisun, California   Tell us about your job. What inspired you to pursue this career? I am an environmental specialist for the State of California, Department of Fish and Game. It is my job to plan for and respond to […]

Guides & Mentors Hideaki Nakata Associate Professor, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan   Tell us about your job. What inspired you to pursue this career? My speciality is “Fisheries Oceanography,” a scientific field having to do with the relationship between marine environments and marine living resources. I was born in Nagasaki on […]

Guides & Mentors Paul V. Oliva Executive Director, BayTrade Oakland, California     Tell us about the dynamic trade patterns that occur in the Bay Area. People think of many different things when they imagine the international trade of the Bay Area or Silicon Valley. Some people think of computers. Some think of the many […]

Guides & Mentors Terri Paluszkiewicz Oceanography Research Scientist Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sequim, Washington         Tell us about you job? What inspired you to pursue this career? My job is a research scientist in oceanography. Right now, I work for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is a Department of Energy research […]