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Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, I have started businesses on three continents. I went to Japan in 1989, and a few years later, with my wife Mary, founded Metropolis, Japan's leading English lifestyle magazine, publishing 707 weekly issues over 14 years. We also started JapanToday.com, now the world's largest English-language news site about Japan, and the first in the world to have reader discussions under the news stories. Long before "engagement" became a buzzword, we were building communities — encouraging reader participation, open discussion, and transparency at scale. After 18 years in Japan we moved to Florida, where we ran a private-room karaoke business. In 2016 we returned to Scotland and ran a marketing agency.
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