My name is Tim (テイム) and I live in the United States. Unfortunately I do not speak Japanese (I have just started to learn) but I am on Mixi because I have some colleagues in Japan.
火星人第1号 asked me to join since I am a native English speaker. If I can help anyone write on Mixi in English, please let me know!
Thank you for introducing yourself, Tim I invited him to join our community, since the members were all Japanese.
I will invite more native speaker to this community.
I work for Cisco Systems - and I have some friends and colleagues who work for Cisco in Japan. They shared a little about Japan and I was really interested in the country. I don't know anything about the tea ceremony, but I'm really interested in how business is done, the food, and the culture in general.
There are a lot of similarities between the US and Japan which is probably why I had so much fun when my Japan friends visited the US.