Profile of MK

Name: Kusakabe Masazo

Address: Bangkok, Thailand
Job: Video Journalist nearest jobless.
      (wishing to be a nobelist...)
Personal History:
  1955:         born in Kyoto-city, Japan
  1975~78:    stay at rural mountain in Japan instead of going University
  1978~1981: working many kind of jobs in Tokyo as a freelancer
  1981~1983: travel to Europe and Africa like as a "Hippie"
  1983~1988: working as the producing director of TV-documentary
  1988:         move to Bangkok, Thailand
  1991~1996 working as the local correspondent of TV-Asahi
   Now:         on struggle to be a nobel writer
TV work
  1983~1988 based in Japan
     TV-Asahi   Wednesday Special   "Traditional Fishing in Japan and Pacific Ocean"  Director, 1984
     TV-Asahi   New Year's Special   "Hundred Best Scenery in Japan" Director of the part of Hokkaido, 1985
     Nippon TV  Time 21 "Brown Bears at Daisetsu-Mauntain in Hokkaido" Director, 1986
     Nippon TV  Time 21 "Killer Whales Story at Johnstone Strait in Canada" Director, 1988
     Nippon TV  Special  "Live from Mt. Chomolanma(Everest) " Director of the part of Nepal side, 1988
     TBS          Romantic World "Bangladesh: Hunter in Sundarbon Jungle"Director, 1987
     TBS          Romantic World "Ethiopia: Wanderings Peoples at Danakil Desert" Director, 1988
     TBS          Romantic World "Ethiopia: Picture Scroll of 3000 years" Director, 1988
  1991~1996 TV-Asahi local correspondent based in Bangkok
     Thailand, Philippines, Burma, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore,
     Nepal, India, Australia, etc.
  1996~   as a freelance besed in Bangkok
     Q-channel, Korean CS "Poh-Tek-Thun-Thai Rescue" Coverage and Camera (Producer: Mr.Jeong)
     Q-channel, Korean CS "UXO-Laos" Coverage and Camera (Producer: Mr. Moon-Tae Jeong)
     Q-channel, Korean CS "Hilltribes in Cambodia" Coverage and Camera (Producer: Mr. Moon-Tae Jeong)
     Q-channel, Korean CS "Elephant in Thailand" Coverage and Camera (Producer: Mr. Moon-Tae Jeong)
     KBS World Now "UXO-Laos" Coverage and Camera (Producer: Mr.Moon-Tae Jeong)
     KBS World Now "Coup d'etat in Cambodia July 1997" Camera (Producer: Mr. Moon-Tae Jeong), 1997
     KBS World Now "Afghanistan Report" Camera (Producer: Mr. Moon-Tae Jeong), 1998
     NHK BS1 Asia Who's Who "Caravan of Artificial legs: from Thai-Cambodian border" Director
     NHK BS1 Asia Who's Who "Shadow Play in a Hope: from Cambodia" Director, 2000
     NHK BS1 Asia Who's Who "Villagers with Elephants: from Thai" Camera, 2001
     NHK BS1 Asia Who's Who "A Mother of Eye Bank: from Srilanka" Director, 2001
     NHK BS1 Asia Who's Who "We don't want to sink: from Maldives" Director, 2002
     NHK BS2 World Journey on My Mind "I'm same age of Anne Frank ~Netherland, German" Director, 2003
     TV-Asahi Spaceship Earth "Green Earth Network in China" Director, 1997
     TV-Asahi Spaceship Earth "Mt. Everest Forever in Nepal" Director, 1998
     TV-Asahi Spaceship Earth "Co-Existence in Borneo Jungle" Director, 2000
     TV-Asahi The Scoop "Radioactivity on the street in Thailand" Camera, 2000