Mr. Sean Hollender spent three years in Japan. He lived in Japan from 1994 until 1997 in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture in the northeast of the island of Honshu. He lived and worked for the Iwate Board of Education's Miyako Branch Office of Education as an English teacher, international relations coordinator, education office worker and Japanese/English translator. The program sponsoring this job was the Japan Exchange for Teaching Program which is sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations. During this time he also received certificates in Japanese language proficiency and Japanese language teaching through the aforementioned and other Japanese governmental agencies.

Here are some of the pictures from his time in Japan:

• Carrying O-mikoshi
• Aikido
• Kansai Adventure (Kyoto, Nara and Osaka), Japan -- Dec. 1994
• Kanan Jr. High School, Miyako, Iwate, Japan -- 1994
• Nishi Jr. High School, Miyako, Iwate, Japan -- 1995
• Nishi Jr. High School, Miyako, Iwate, Japan -- 1997
• Miyako Northern High School, Iwate, Japan -- 1994
• Miyako Northern High School, Iwate, Japan -- 1997
• Miyako Odori - 1997
• My Apartment in Miyako, Iwate, Japan -- 1994-1997
• A Trip To Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
• Local Sports Day Festival -- Miyako, Iwate, Japan -- 1994
• Iwate Prefecture Miyako Education Office - Japan -- 1994
• Rikuchu Miyako Lion's Club 1997 International Relations Day