After attending state schools including Woolverstone Hall, I was able to attend Bedales boarding school (thanks to a generous donation my grandfather Roland Williams, RIP). From eighteen I studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Bath and worked briefly for Marconi Defence Systems (missile manufacuturers) upon graduation. Well before my graduation from Bath University, I decided that engineering was not for me. Perhaps if I had been making Music systems or televisions then it might not have been so bad but at the time the only options open to me where in the defence or banking industries. I think that I was simply sick of getting involved in the workings of *things* rather than people and life. I think that whole thing did not strike me as being challenging enough. I felt that a nervous breakdown and obesity would be enevitable.
I decided to go back to university
- this time The University of Edinburgh - to study Philosophy. The philosophy
taught at Edinburgh University turned out to be rather too similar to Electronic
Engineering: very rational and having very little connection with people
or life. Outside courses in Comparative Religion caught my attention,
and I swopped course again to Japanese with the intention of studying Japanese
religion and philosophy. I spent two years as an exchange student
at the University of Okayama, Japan. There I learnt to speak Japanese,
and attended a course at the headquarters of Kurozumi-kyou. After graduation
from Edinburgh and living briefly in northern France I obtained a Monbusho
scholarship to study for a Ph.D. on the structure and psychology of Japanese
mythology at Kurume University. I studied mythology for three years but
I
found that noone was interested
in what I had to say about what I say as the philosophy of Japanese myth
within that area. Since then I have gradually become a psychologist with
the help of Naoko Sonoda (a social psychologist) and more recently
Inanaga Kazutoyo (a clinic psychiatrist).
I used to consider myself very lucky
to be employed as an English and Culture lecturer at The Institute of Foreign
Language Education, Kurume University.
But now I have changed my name to Timothy Takemoto and live in Yamaguchi, just accross the water on the mainland. So now I have had there names, Takemoto, Leuers and Williams. That is a lot of names.
I like Japanese and US films. I am bald. I drive a car.
I really like Kurume
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