 After working as a reporter for "Tempo" weekly newsmagazine and the Japanese newspaper, "Yomiuri Shimbun", and after some time in the U.S. began to work for the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, where he currently resides.He was the Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa in 1987 and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, Ithaca in 1990.He published his first collection of poetry, "Ada" (There Is), in 1976.