Eric is a forth-generation Half-Japanese Half-Caucasian American living and working in Tokyo Japan. He is a linguist, a web designer, a global marketing consultant, an English instructor, a part-time close-up magician, a son, a younger brother, an older brother, a boyfriend, a Christian, a pool player, and he is going a bit bald (the balding gene is past down by the mother…thanks for that). Love you Mom <3.

2011-Present
KAPITAL有限会社　Capital inc.

Eric works in the sales department as a Global Marketing Consultant and Web Coordinator for Japanese denim goliath KAPITAL (Out of Okayama Japan). His dream is to help KAPITAL gain its deserved global fame, while maintaining the ever so charming and mysterious exclusiveness that it has created for itself. Alongside KAPITAL designer Hirata Kazuhiro (KIRO), Eric strives to help KAPITAL on the digital WEB 2.0 front while accurately representing the analog and vintage “craftsmanship” artistic sense from which KAPITAL derives its spirit.

2006-2011
WASEDA International Corp (WIC)

Eric was an English language tutor at WIC within one of Japan’s Ivy-League-like top three private schools – Waseda University.

2008-2010
Treasure Net

Eric was a language consultant and writer for popular book “平均日本人英語” (Heikin Nihonjin Eigo – The Average Japanese Person’s English).

Private English Teaching
エリックは今、プライベト英語の生徒はいないですが、都合が合えば、また生徒を取る可能性がありますので、お問い合わせをメールまでお願いします。

eric.sato(アットマーク）gmail(ドット)com

Nuance is the spirit of a sentence and it is expressed in many different ways, often in single words alone. Understanding the spirit of a sentence and recreating it in another language is a beautiful task, but one that sadly is not easily understood, praised, or often, even recognized.