A News Escort For Tokyo Escorts.

TOKYO (Kyodo) — Misako Takashima, a Japanese graphic novel creator based in New York, worries that many American teenagers she has met during academic art events rely too heavily on the Internet and are reluctant to try anything in the real world.
“I met many children who easily believe that the knowledge they get via the Internet is everything,” Takashima told an interview, while working on a new book due out next year describing her own life, including the tumultuous 11 years since she first came to the United States.
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The 33-year-old native of the city of Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, is a self-taught manga artist and had no professional career in Japan.
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Takashima first came to the United States in August 1999 and spent nearly a year as an exchange student in Kirksville, Missouri. After graduating from her university in Tokyo, she went to New York as an aspiring puppeteer.

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~ by iarryflint on May 28, 2010.