1988-1989 | - first visit to Japan |
1993-1994 | - lived in Gyokurinin temple at Daitokuji in Kyoto; exchange student at Ritsumeikan University |
1995 | - graduated from the University of British Columbia (field of study: Japanese history and religious studies) |
1995-1999 | - high school English teacher in Kyoto |
1999-2001 | - Graduate School - MA Program Asian Studies Dept. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada)
Thesis: The History of Charitable Giving along the Shikoku Pilgrimage Route
(http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/shikoku/moretonThesisComplete.pdf)
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2001-present | : Assistant Professor at Tokushima Bunri University
(teaching English at the Bunri University and Bunri Elementary school, working in the International Education Office, researching the Shikoku pilgrimage with a focus on the History of Foreigners and the Shikoku Pilgrimage Route) |