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William
65 Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
Seeking: Female 40 - 57
Smoke: Don't smoke
I am a Canadian and have lived in Japan for many years and came here sponsored by the Japanese Government on a Ministry of Education Scholarship ( Monbukagakusho: MEXT Scholarship). I studied ceramic histories of China, Japan and Korean at a museum in Tokyo. Not only the histories of ceramics but also daily life in those ancient times. After 3 years I had the opportunity to study ceramic histories on a scholarship at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) but instead set my sights to try and enter Gei Dai - Tokyo Music of Arts and Music which is the top art university here. I requested an application and the staff just laughed and said I would never get in and so refused my application request. Finally I managed to get one and was told you will never get in. I managed to pass the Masters Test in the ceramics course and was allowed to enter. I therefore became the first foreigner to be allowed to be accepted in this department. I was exclusively under the top professor who became the dean of the university and a Living Nation Treasure. Upon graduation I was instructed by my professor to stay in Japan. I set up my own studio and had shows at department stores and in addition worked with a famous artist called Ikeda Masuo. We were good friends and I always teased him that I could get into Gei Dai and he couldn't. Japan is my home and always will be as I value it's long culture. Life as a foreigner here is not hard as the local people know that I passed the same exams that the Japanese have to. Infact they are amazed but one can not should not take one so serious. Finally I do not have to conform to the society as much as most Japanese for one I am a foreigner and my background and the universities I attend here attests to my standing in Japanese Society.

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