| I'd been living in Japan for a few years | | | | Prefecture was about to start and was |
| after giving up my Police career as a | | | | advertising for staff. Without phoning the |
| Detective in Melbourne, Australia. I was | | | | station for an appointment she went to the |
| fluent in Japanese and had done a number of | | | | station burst through the doors and asked for |
| TV programs here in Japan, when my future | | | | a job as a DJ. |
| turned from TV to Radio. | | | | |
| | | | Ryoko got the job and the owner of the |
| One day I bumped into a guy who I went to | | | | production company for the radio station |
| school with when I was an exchange student | | | | asked her if she knew any foreigners that |
| for one year here in Niigata, Japan. He'd | | | | spoke Japanese well. She told him of me and |
| gotten into the dating business and asked me | | | | one other guy. Now the guy I was doing the MC |
| if I would be the MC at the dating parties | | | | dating work for rang me and said, "I'm going |
| which are where guys and girls come together | | | | to do a dating corner on this new radio |
| and exchange profiles and get to meet each | | | | station called FM Port, Niigata. The corner |
| other. It's good because it gives them an | | | | will be about love and dating and I want you |
| opportunity to meet others. | | | | to do the corner on the radio, so come with |
| | | | me to FM Port to talk with production company |
| Unknown to me, a female spy from one of the | | | | boss. |
| other dating groups in town had joined the | | | | |
| party to see how we run our parties. Luckily | | | | I went with him to FM Port and for the 30 |
| I was the MC at that party. She turned out to | | | | minutes we were there the boss of the |
| be a high spirited person, and a person who | | | | production company spoke to me about lots of |
| was to be my partner for 18 months on radio. | | | | things. I didn't think it was an interview so |
| Her name was Ryoko Mizobuchi. | | | | I just talked and joked with the boss. I was |
| | | | then offered a job as a radio DJ, 4 hours on |
| Ryoko whilst now working for her dating | | | | air everyday except Sunday! The boss told me |
| company had previously worked on radio as a | | | | to come back the following Tuesday for a |
| DJ and wanted to return to radio. A new radio | | | | final interview and test. Heck I didn't even |
| station covering the whole of the Niigata | | | | know that our chat was an interview. |