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Born in Wakayama City, Japan, 1960
Graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo:
one of Japan's leading Universities, 1983
Major: English/American literature
Minor: Political Science
Became a freelance photojournalist in 1986
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Communist
insurgency in the Philippines |
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Palestinian
Uprising in West Bank and Gaza |
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Destruction
of tropical rain forest in Malaysia
Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, China |
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Gulf
War |
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Kurdish
Refugees in Northern Iraq |
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Riots
in Los Angeles |
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Hanshin
Great Earthquake |
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Women
with HIV/AIDS |
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Service
Dog Training Program at the Washington Corrections
Center for Women |
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Final
year of an elderly woman |
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Dolphin
assisted therapy for children |
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Organic
farming program at the San Francisco County Jail |
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Healing
gardens at medical facilities, Service dog training
program at the juvenile facility in California,
Art in health care |
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The
work of child-life specialists in Miami Children's
Hospital
Green Chimneys, NY, a treatment facility that applies
the power of nature into healing of emotionally
injured children |
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Community Garden Project aiming at building peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Research on Community Gardens and City Farms in London, UK |
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Mine detection dog training in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Research on innovative US programs aimed at helping youth at risk
Animal Assisted Therapy/Activities at pediatric ward of a hospital in Japan |
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Advisory work on guide dog puppy raising program in a Japanese prison, first of it’s kind in Japan |
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Demining effort in Cambodia with mine detection dogs, Service dog training program at a juvenile facility in California, Therapeutic farm for abused children in California
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-Harp
Seal Pups I & II, (NESCO, 1990 & 1992) |
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-Gift
of Life, (Iwanami Shoten, 1997) |
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-Lessons in
Saying Goodbye, (Kodansha,2003) |
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-Service Dog
Tasha, (Shogakukan INC, 1999) |
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-Goodbye,
Grandma Erma, (Shogakukan INC, 2000) |
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-Thank
you, Fonzie, (Shogakukan INC, 2002) |
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-Planting Seeds of Peace, (Iwasaki Publishing Co.,Ltd., 2006) |
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-Let’s Play, Fendi (Shogakukan INC, 2007) |
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-Mine Detection Dogs (Kodansha Ltd., Publishers, 2009) |
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-Dogs Come to My Hospital (Iwasaki Publishing Co., Ltd., 2009) |
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-Mine Detection Dogs at Work (Kodansha Ltd., Publishers, 2011)
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-Girls Who Raise Service Dogs – Dog Program That Opens Hardened Heart
(Kodansha Ltd., Publishers, 2012)
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-Dogs
Gave Me the Strength to Live, (Iwanami Shoten, 1999) |
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-A
Garden That Grows People, (Iwanami Shoten, 2002) |
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-This is the
Happiest
Time
in
my
Life,(shogakukan
INC,
2004) |
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-Letting Go and Simplifying Your Life, (Iwanami Shoten Publisiers, 2005) |
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-When Injured Birds Fly - Stories of Children at Green Chimneys,
(Iwasaki Publishing Co., Ltd., 2005) |
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Taiyo Award for Photography,
second place, for a photo essay on a woman living with
HIV/AIDS, 1998
Kodansha Award for the Best Children's Book of the Year,
for Goodbye, Grandma Erma, 2001
Shogakukan Award for Best Children's Book of the Year,
for Goodbye, Grandma Erma, 2001
Kenbuchi Children's Book Award, for Goodbye, Grandma Erma,
2001
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