DR. ALAN BRENDER, an educator and writer with many years' experience in Japan, was Dean of Lakeland University Japan for over 15 years, and has taught Journalism at Temple University and the University Maryland. He has lived and worked in Kenya, Swaziland and Malaysia as well as Japan, and, an inveterate traveler, has visited over 90 countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. He was one of the editors of The Encyclopedia of Japan, contributor to the South China Morning Post and, for six years, was the Japan correspondent for The Chronicle of Higher Education, contributing articles on Japanese higher education and cultural phenomena, including drinking customs at universities, the decline of women’s universities in Japan and South Korea and the development of anime and manga programs at Japanese universities. He has published over 20 books, including a popular Trivia Quiz book for Dell, and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. While he was a West Coast correspondent in California for such publications as Afternoon TV, TV Stars and Starlog, he interviewed numerous Hollywood celebrities, including Billy Crystal, Jane Seymour, Buster Crabbe, Mark Hamill, Gene Roddenbury, Wilfred Hyde White, and David Hasslehoff.