Family
In June 1972 he married Haruko Kinase, at that time an undergraduate student at Sussex. In 1978, they had a daughter Asako. His wife Haruko earned a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently doing research on the hospice system. Their daughter, Asako, also graduated from UIUC, with a joint major in geography and chemistry.
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