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This user would like to keep his information from showing up in a simple Google search of his e-mail address, even though he has recently become an active Wikipedian again in order to remain active in a desk job with a lot of down-time and whose job-description involves "teaching Iwate and Japan about the world and the world about Japan and Iwate"; also, the information that WAS on this page was extremely out of date.
My activities since August 2012 have been largely on the subject of Japanese literature, since it is my primary area of expertise. I am also up for any translation of Japanese sources (in a broader range of topics), and translation of Japanese Misplaced Pages articles. One article I translated that I am particularly proud of is Flag of Iwate Prefecture; at the moment, the only prefectural flag of Japan to have its own English-language Misplaced Pages article is that of my host-prefecture of Iwate. (Insignias of Tokyo also exists, of course, but still... :P )