Personal Info:

Name: Jim Baker

Date of Birth: Sept. 26th, 1963

Place of birth: Flint, Michigan U.S.

Hometown: Houghton,Michigan

Present location:Hirosaki,Aomori, Japan since 2002

Children: The picture below is of my son Dakota, he is in his 1st year of High School now. He can speak,read and write Japanese well now,almost like a native. I am very proud of my son.

Main Occupation: English Teacher. I have been teaching English for the past 12 years now, both as a private and as an ALT teacher English teacher. If you are interested in learning English please feel free to contact me. I can teach grammar,conversational,TOFEL,TOIEC. If you would like to try to learn English using video cam & voice. Then please feel free to contact me for more information 017-236-0666.

Other Occupation: Computer Repair. I basically do everything in the computer field; I examine and determine a diagnosis, repair all makes and models of computers "except for Mac computers". Design homepages,personal & business. Setup networks for both home & business.

Custom built computers. Custom building computers is one of my best areas.I can custom build any new computer, part by part. To the to the exact specification to fulfill each customer`s needs.

If you all ready have a computer system & would like to have it upgraded, feel free to contact me anytime with any question you may have. All countries, all languages welcome, click on the link for more information. J.C.'s PC Sales & Repair

Hobbies: Love to write poetry and song lyrics, playing musical instruments & singing.

Musical instruments I can play are: piano, guitar, bass guitar, and drums. Singing is a great love of mine. Love to sing on stage, or Karaoke. Music plays a very big part in my life. I am always interested in listening to different types of music from around the entire world. Enjoy being a vocal coach for international artists that desire to learn to sing in English.

There is one song writer that I truly admire very,very much. Her name is Seiko Matsuda. She is on the greatest song writers that I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. When it comes to transposing music between languages, no one can compare to her. I met Seiko Matsuda many, many years ago. She has amazing talent when she writes her own songs & performs them as well as transposes them from Japanese to English. She is able to do this perfectly without having to edit or change the melody of the song at all which that is great!!! .

Another singer & song writer that I also admire is Hikaru Utada, also know as Hikky chan to many. She has been writings songs since she was very young as well. She has amazing talents & a fantastic voice. I truly admire her with 100% respect. "Hope to someday attend one of her concerts."

Learning languages is a great love of mine. I truly love learning how to read, write, and speak other languages as well as learning how to sing in those very same languages. Presently I can speak some Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay, some Spanish, French and German and of course English. I truly need to learn how to speak more Japanese, please teach me.

Favorite Japanese singers: Speed,Crystal Kay,Seiko Matsuda,Hiroko Shimabukuro,Eriko Imai,Hikaru Utada,Speed,Namie Amuro,Kiroro,Morning Musume,UA,Shoko Kitano,Mai Kuraki,ELT,Hitomi,Ayumi Hamasaki, BoA,Sayaka Matsuda,as well as many other singers that sing in Japanese.

My number 1 all time favorite Japanese music group is Speed even though they have been broken up for a few years now. However I am very happy to annouce that they have reunited to release a new single. My number one all time favorite solo Japanese singer would be Hikaru Utada.

There is nothing more I would love to do then to co write a song with one of these singers in both English & in Japanese. After all I am a song writer & have written quite a few poems & songs myself.

Favorite song: #1: "Hikari" performed by Utada Hikaru.

Favorite Korean groups: BoA,Baby Vox,FINKL. Hyori Lee used to belong to the group FINKL which stands for Fine Killing Liberty. I love Hyori Lee very,very,very much. She is so very beautiful. She sings fantastic too.

S.E.S. when they were together,they were my number 1 favorite Korean group. In case you did not know this, S.E.S. stands for their names in English letters which are as follows "Sea, Eugene,Shoo". They can sing in both languages Korean and Japanese perfectly. Like my favorite Japanese group Speed they have broken up too. However, they are still to this very day,my number 1 favorite Korean group.

Number 1 favorite Korean solo singer is BoA. She can sing in Korean & in Japanese. She also can sing in English. She is very cute, now she is turning in to a beautiful young woman now. Again,would love to co write a song in Korean & in English with any of those Korean singers I have mentioned that are now singing as solo artists.

Favorite Chinese singer: Fei Wang

Favorite Movie: "Andromedia" a Japanese movie.

Favorite actresses:Fujiwara Norika, Zhang ZiYi

Favorite women in sports:,Volleyball: Japan's most beautiful MVP is "Kana Oyama", Womens Figure Skating: Michelle Kwan, Yuka Sato, Kristy Yamaguchi and more, Women Tennis: Anna Kournikova, Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, Mary Pierce and many more, Diving:Fu Ming Xia "Air Fu" she will always be in my memory. The Chinese Women Gymnastics Team. "Please support women in sports".