Invisible Outsider: From Battling Bullies to Building Bridges, My Life as a Third Culture Kid

It’s not every day you meet a white, blond, Midwest American kid who speaks English with a Japanese accent.

But this is no ordinary kid. At the age of three, he’d relocated from Indiana to the neon-lit metropolis of 1980s Tokyo. As the only foreigner or ‘gaijin’ from Japanese kindergarten right through to high school in both Japan and the US, he’d battled to fit in. He’d fought his corner hard and found a degree of acceptance.

Back in the US with his Japanese sensibilities, a new cycle of bul...