Kaishun Nishigaya, 82, is very modest about his life, filled though it is with voyages into the unknown, adventures in new and contrasting lands and seemingly insurmountable challenges.
As a university graduate, he set sail from Yokohama to California to chase his dream profession and settled in Seattle, where he realized he ¡°couldn¡¯t really speak English.¡± The appeal of the ¡°last frontier state¡± drew him to Alaska at the time of its rapid development and, later, he was dispatched to Saipan where he contributed in breaking records for the island¡¯s tourism.
Yet, ¡°the most wonderful thing about my life,¡± he says, ¡°is that I¡¯m still alive.¡±
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