Futakuchi Kazuko - Partner
Major
Kanazawa University Faculty of Letters, Department of Literature
Position
Translation Project Manager, Coordinator
Profile
After working in the sales support department for a global satellite communication project of a Japanese electric company, moved to Kanazawa in 1990. At the age of 30, started to work for a local translation company. Then worked as a freelance translator as well as an English teacher at a preparatory school for 4 years. Started to work as a teleworker of Japan for Sustainability in 2004, then joined EcoNetworks as a translation coordinator in 2005.
10 things to know Kazuko Futakuchi
- 1. Define sustainability in few words.
- Sufficiency.
- 2. Who is your inspiration?
- Junko Edahiro, Mahatma Gandhi, Musashi Miyamoto, Michio Hoshino, Rafael Nadal.
- 3. Favorite books?
- Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, by Joseph Jaworski.
- 4. Why are you working for EcoNetworks?
- This is the place where I can make my potential fully realized.
- 5. Love Animals?
- Penguins. I wish I could live with them…
- 6. Where is your next vacation？
- Open-air spa under thousands of stars.
- 7. Who are you? Please define yourself.
- Loving my family, friends, colleagues, and jobs, I'm striving to be a woman with flexible strength like bamboos.
- 8. Favorite movie or documentary?
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds, Field of Dreams, Blade Runner.
- 9. Favorite food?
- Green vegetables, and seasonal food
- 10. Favorite word?
- Resonance, inspiration, communication.
