Niall Murtagh

Blue-Eyed Salaryman

Niall Murtagh was born and grew up on Dublin’s northside. After graduating from University College Dublin in 1979, he travelled slowly across Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America, working along the way but taking time off to earn several degrees, including diplomas in Japanese and French and a doctorate in artificial intelligence. He has lived in Japan since 1986, initially as a Japanese government-sponsored student, later as an ordinary employee of Mitsubishi. He has written for various publications, in both English and Japanese, on travel, technology and corporate culture.

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