The Office
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| Warren
E. Ball |
Warren founded
Intercontinental Marketing Kabushiki Kaisha in 1959. Today he assists
the company as consultant. At various times in his life he and IMC have
worked for or represented departments of Procter & Gamble, the
Harvard Business Review, McGraw Hill magazines, Asiaweek, Forbes
Global, Instrument Society of America, DMS (Forecast International),
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, PennWell
Publishing Co., Lonely Planet, Yawata Iron & Steel, Oversea Courier
Service, taught at Waseda University and more.
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Tetsuo Fujimoto
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Tetsuo came to IMC
after
working as an accountant. His accounting experience helped IMC keep its
books straight, and his meticulous precision serves well to keep keep
the company's periodicals import business running smoothly. His main
customers are the large Japanese government and industrial
organizations. Today a substantial amount of the information business
has moved from paper to online. Tetsuo is a devoted computer fanatic.
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Kuniko Ito
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Kuniko has taken
over the
work previously handled by Hajime Saito who retired March 31, 2007.
Kuniko now also handles sales to the
retail book trade. IMC distributes books by many small English
publishers in Japan, imports technical/business books, and has been
selling Lonely Planet travel guides since the days when LP was a near
startup.
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Kuniko Ito
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Kuniko's early
career was
with the Mitsubishi Bank. She came to IMC looking for a job that would
give her experience in international business and travel. She has
traveled but never reached her original goal of Peru. Kuniko handles
technical book imports, exports of Japanese journals, many financial
and office tasks.
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Liz Adams
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Born in Tokyo.
Educated,
without great merit, in Japan, France and the USA. For decades a
dennizon of Manhattan, Liz now plies her trade in Los Angeles along
with Tomas, her drummer and translator Swedish husband, and a dirty
cat. Liz is IMC's hidden weapon for reaching the USA market.
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Authors & Editors
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Donald Richie
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Donald needs no
introduction. No other expat author in Japan has written so much over
such a long period. IMC distributes the new TOKYO
NIGHTS and A
VIEW FROM THE CHUO LINE.
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Leza Lowitz
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Leza has made a name
for
herself in the USA and Japan as poet, writer, editor and yoga
instructor. IMC distributes her stories GREEN
TEA TO GO and poems 100
ASPECTS OF THE MOON.
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Hillel Wright
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Hillel is a writer,
teacher, retired fisherman, and renegade hippie from the Vietnam era.
His stories have appeared in many publications and in book form include
ROTARY
SUSHI and ALL
WORLDLY PURSUITS. He edited the anthology FACES
IN THE CROWDS. These three books are distributed by IMC. Hillel is
currently
working on a novel.
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Michael Hoffman
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Michael is a
journalist
and writer supplying feed to Tokyo's English newspapers. Thanks to
modern communications, he is able to do this from a house in the
healthy quiet of rural Hokkaido. He is also a novelist. IMC distributes
THE
COAT THAT COVERS HIM and would like to do more of his work.
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sorry, I am far behind here but will
add others soon
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