Coming to Japan was an easy decision for me, deciding that I wanted to live here took me two years. The reason I came to Japan was not a good
one: I just wanted to run away from the USA. Because my father is Japanese, moving here was the easiest way to get away from the states.
I applied to Japanese universities, and was lucky enough to get into Waseda because they had just opened a new department (国際教養学部) and were desperate for English speakers. After living in Japan for two years I thought I had had enough, and was going to move back to the states.
When I arrived back in the states it hit me how much I had grown accustomed to life in Tokyo, and could not get used to life in the states again. Finally, I came back to Tokyo AGAIN! It is a bit unfortunate that I had to spend so much money going back and forth in order to realize that Tokyo was (is) where I wanted live, but I am fortunate and grateful to be able to live in this vibrant metropolis today.

During my time in Tokyo I have developed a major interest in three
fields: literature, photography and architecture:
I fell in love with Japanese literature, especially Mishima Yukio and Dazai Osamu. Japanese literature addresses a personal, internal, human condition in a way that I feel Western literature, which can tend to focus more on plot, or an event-based structure.
Photography is kind of a normal thing for people to pickup when they live in a city as interesting as Tokyo, and I have been no exception to this rule. My first year living in Tokyo I took my otoshidama to Shinjuku and bought an old 35mm SLR camera, a Nikon F2. Four years later my passion for photography has only grown, and now I enjoy shooting with a Hasselblad 500CM-a medium format （中判） camera. Some of my photos can be seen at http://musato.deviantart.com/ Architecture is something I gained an interest in in the past two years. Some friends kept pointing out to me that many of my photos of were of buildings, one of them suggested that I should try designing buildings instead of making photographs of other people's buildings.
Two of my favorite architect's are Ando Tadao are Kurokawa Kisho.