Living With the Japanese in Real Time -- A Cultural  Perspective

            This slide presentation and lecture will enable the viewer to comprehend the life style of traditional and modern Japanese culture.    Through a visitation and review of housing, family life, economic and educational structures, Willetta Wyatt Silva, PhD, will document the secrets and  the myths of the Far East.  She will explore issues e. g., exchanging greetings, drinking and eating habits from sashimi to kare-raisu to soba.  Marriage customs, birth, and the rituals of ancestor workshop will also be explored. 

            Dr. Silva lived and worked in Asia from 1988 -1998  teaching English to Japanese university students.  While affiliated with Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan, Willetta also functioned as a research consultant to  the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tohoku University using brain imaging technology to study language functioning.  She retains a position as an adjunct professor at Heidelberg College, Sapporo, Japan and also serves as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Psychology, Villanova University.  Willetta resides in the Valley Forge, PA area.

(Length of presentation:  one hour.  This presentation will appeal to persons expecting to visit or live in Japan, especially students and business professionals.  Speaker's fee available upon request.)