I first went to Seattle University in Seattle, Washington where I mainly studied Asian institutional history including medieval Japan. I studied historical sociology at Western Washington University, and a school within Western called Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington where I received a B.A. in 1987. I mainly studied role and social identity theory, and Max Weber's historical sociology there. At Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois I returned to the study of the Nambokucho and Muromachi shugo-daimyo (14th-15th centuries) for my masters thesis. I graduated there in 1990 with an M.A.. I completed a first year paper on the development of institutions during the Nambokucho era at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1994.

Since then I have been employed professionally as a computer specialist (IT) at a few places, and am presently at a downtown Chicago Japanese securities company. I have continued my studies in Japanese history, but have shifted toward the study of ancient history such as the Jomon, Kofun, and the Emishi. My other interests are in collecting fossil trilobites from the Paleozoic era. I think Wikipedia is a great endeavor and welcome the much needed controls that have been recently put in place to strengthen its accuracy.

Kenjiro Hakomori

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