Author: KEC Emi

梅田 麻友子 Mayuko Umeda

Originally from Hokkaido, she has worked for eight years in the medical division of a Tokyo-based Japanese precision equipment manufacturer, mainly in international sales and sales planning. Although she grew up in a family with no experience of living abroad—none of her relatives had ever left Japan—she was an avid reader from childhood and often engaged with language. Perhaps due to this, or to the English conversation school she attended as a child, English became her strongest subject in school. With a deep curiosity and admiration for living abroad using English, she first left Japan at the age of 20 to study in Canada. Later, while enrolled at a Japanese university, she spent a year studying in San Diego, California, and after joining her company, worked for three years on assignment in New Jersey, making a total of four years spent in the United States.