William Scott Wilson

born 1944

grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

As an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College in 1966, he was invited by a friend to join a

three-month kayak trip up the coast of Japan from Shimonoseki to Tokyo, documented in National Geographic, 1966

Dartmouth College, B.A., Political Science

Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, B.A., Japanese Language and Literature

research on Edo-period (1603-1868) philosophy at the Aichi Prefectural University, in Nagoya, Japan

University of Washington, M.A., Japanese Language and Literature, 1979

son Matthew

daughter Michelle

currently lives in South Miami, Florida


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