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Mr. Alan Casemore was Executive Director of Southwest Institute, Tokyo, an instructors’ group specializing in research involving corporate learning, cross-cultural communication, management, and training issues. He is formerly an editor and assistant instructor for University of Maryland University College, International Business and Management Institute. He specializes in Business Psychology, Culture, Etiquette, and Communication. Mr. Casemore has over 25 years experience in Japan, teaching international and inter-cultural business communication skills.
Mr. Casemore’s unique teaching methods focus on holistic team communicative procedures, to include incorporating verbal and non-verbal skill sets, using emotional intelligence, and applying world-class communication skills to fit virtually any situation. Mr. Casemore teaches communication technique sets that are rarely offered or taught in traditional schooling, to include stage acting techniques, incorporating Ki-gung, breathing and Yoga exercises.
Mr. Casemore also prepared scientific and medical research reports for publication, and presentations for international academic conferences, for medical researchers at Tokyo University Hospital and Branch Hospitals. He was an instructor for business and communication seminars at Sumitomo, Marubeni, NEC, Hitachi, and Matsushita, and has co-instructed at Nikki and Yokohama Rubber, among others.
Mr. Casemore’s entrepreneurial business activities span more than thirty years, including numerous ventures, as an editor and publisher, a sole trader, designer, manufacturer, marketer and distributor, in England, Europe, India, the Middle East, the Americas, and Japan. He has worked aboard a research vessel in the North Sea, and experienced a number of years in the British pop music industry, as a songwriter, director, and arranger. He has also teaches English conversation, fluency, literature and grammar, at all levels, from primary school to PhD, and is skilled at guiding students through TOEFL, TOEIC, and University entrance.
He earned a five-year degree from Leicester DeMontfort University, England, Polytechnic School of Art and Technology. Mr. Casemore is a published author of several books.
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