The unprecedented disaster on March 11, 2011 hit, among others, my business as tour guide and the entire tourism-related industry in Japan.
Many of my colleagues left the job as tour guide to make an entirely new start in life. I did not do so, though, as I am dedicated to this lifework of mine.
Having experienced several different jobs including liaison staff in concert management business, staff in a third-party organization, tour director for Japanese groups, I really find my present job the most exciting of all and worth doing.
A year and a half has passed since the disaster, and now tourists are starting to come back to Japan slowly. I am really looking foward to serving you as licensed tour guide again.
Those are the very things what most people remember well and are, in fact, most impressed by, even though they might forget in what year such and such Buddhist temple was founded or when the Muromachi Period came to its end.
