Bruce L. Batten
Bruce L. Batten is a historian of Japan who currently administers the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC) in Yokohama, following a thirty-year teaching career at J. F. Oberlin University in Machida City, Tokyo. His favorite pastime is photography, but his other hobbies have included playing the violin, piano, and guitar, as well as reading, drawing, and (perhaps more unusually) collecting fossils. Most of these hobbies dropped by the wayside when he moved to Japan, since there was no place nearby to collect fossils and practicing musical instruments was difficult in densely populated Tokyo with the neighbors always listening. Perhaps the biggest regret of his life (so far) is abandoning the violin.
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