About "Seiji Does Japan"
"Seiji Does Japan" is a personal website of Seiji Ikeda. He finances the entire site himself and receives absolutely no income what-so-ever from the site. It's simply to share his experiences abroad to friends, family, and the public while practicing his web design skills. Everything is done by Seiji, of course. He hopes that everyone truly enjoys the site!!!

Although he is pleased to have everyone know about his candid personal life, two things he does censor are 1) his dating relationships, and 2) work specific stuff. Why? Because 1) he needs to have a "safe zone" in his personal life, and 2) writing about work can get you fired.

About Seiji
Seiji was born in Goleta, California (Southern California near Santa Barbara) in 1977. But moved to Manhattan, Kansas when he was 1 and has lived there ever since.

Interests in science and arts led him to a 3.5 year study of Pre-Medicine and Organismic Biology at Kansas State University (KSU), but switched to Graphic Design for the remainder of his 2 years. Academic recognition includes being in the "Who's Who of College", art scholarships, and Best Graphic Design Student for 2000. He graduated in the year 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design (specializing in web design) and a Minor in Spanish.

His portfolio includes web work done for KSU Sports Information, KSU Art Department, KSU Rotaract (International Best Rotaract Site, 3rd place 2000), the Manhattan Mercury (Manhattan's city newspaper), and KSU Men's Crew. He taught Graphic Design and Computer Imaging at Kansas State University as an Instructor. And was the KSU Art Department's Computer Technician.

He also excelled in the sport of rowing as a rower, coxswain and coach for 10 years. Coaching crews of both High School and Varsity Collegiate. And holds the record of being the only high school student ever to be the President of a Varsity Collegiate Sport; a situation unheard of.

Philanthropic tendencies has led him to co-found the national fundraiser, "Row for Humanity" in 1997 (to help both rowing crews and Habitat for Humanity), a Secretary for Habitat for Humanity, Rotary International, etc.. And has also led him on Community Service ventures to the Yucatan, Mexico teaching summer school to less fortunate children.

He is currently teaching English in Miki, Japan (located 40 km north of Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture) under the JET Program. He started in 2001 and is in his 3rd (final) year today.

He enjoys traveling, photography, movies and movie-making, collecting figurines / hat pins / foreign currency / sand from around the world / DVDs, home-repair, web design, linguistics, art, ancient civilizations, festivals, taking naps, anime, cartoons, teaching, learning, doodling, martial arts, can play the violin & viola, road trips, nature, sunny weather, humor, Spiderman, onsens, shopping, costumes, world masks, Miyamoto Musashi & samurai swords, UFO Catcher (Bear Claws) games, cultures, food, root beer, ice cream, etc.

He hates mosquitos, people who bitch / rude / narrow-minded, not being prepared, smoking, computer crashes, slow computers, no internet access, the school gate, being cold, and caterpillers.

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