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An American Lawyer in a Japanese Law Office How did I get here? If you'll excuse me for giving my resume (long, even in the short version), here is my story: I first came to Japan at age 24. I worked as an English teacher for two years and then became a full-time student at a Japanese language school. I returned to English teaching after this, but soon felt that my life was stagnating. At age 28, I returned to my hometown of Austin, Texas to go to graduate school at the University of Texas.  I taught first-year Japanese classes while getting my master's degree in Library & Information Science.  My international experience and an internship got me a job in the semiconductor industry, and I participated in ramping up a fab in Taiwan, but I was dissatisfied with the way things were headed in my division, so I ended up in law school.  I got my law degree from the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law. I actually spent my second year of law school in Kyoto, because the Japanese Ministry of Education gave me a full-ride Monbusho Scholarship to study law at Doshisha University for 18 months. I passed the bar in Hawaii and immediately thereafter was hired by a prominent Japanese law firm.     4:14:44 PM    comment []