Toranosuke is a graduate student in Art History at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, and looks forward to the day he can rightfully call himself a “scholar” and a (professional/recognized) “historian.”
He holds a MA in Japanese Studies and interned for a time in the Japanese art curatorial section of a major museum and at another institution. He aspires towards a career either as a professor and scholar of Japanese history, or in the museum world or another capacity, working with Japanese history, art, and culture. He has recently completed a year-long intensive Japanese language course, and is eager to return to Japan, feeling for the first time confident that his language skills are up to the challenge of living and working there “for real”, as a 社会人, a member of society, rather than as a temporarily visiting student.
