Victor Casale

Born in New York City, June 4th, 1950, the Year of the Tiger, Victor Casale spent the first four years of his life in the East Village on 12th Street between First and Second Avenues. He moved to Long Island in September 1954 and grew up on the South Shore.

After graduating from Lindenhurst High in 1968, Victor Casale attended Rutgers University on an Alumni scholarship. He majored in Asian Studies with a heavy concentration on Chinese history, specializing in the Sung dynasty.

After graduating from Rutgers in 1972, he worked for Berlitz in Tokyo. Victor Casale has traveled extensively throughout the world, including forty countries to date. He has enjoyed adventures in Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Egypt, Pakistan, El Salvador, Brazil, Korea, Cambodia, Thailand and China, to mention a few.

He attended graduate school in between countries and studied philosophy and education for two years before returning to Japan where he taught International Studies, International Communications and English Literature at Tokiwa University for ten years. He still lives in Japan with his Japanese wife, Yuri, and they have three children.

Besides teaching and consulting, Victor Casale has written for several newspapers in Japan and co-authored an English text which was published in Tokyo in 1986. At present, he is working in education and concentrating on his writing. He is also the owner of a well known cafe-bar in Japan called New York Station. http://orbweb.net/nys/