Hugh is a recent graduate of the ASIJ class of 2020. Before graduating, he attended ASIJ for 13 years, joining the community back in Kindergarten. He was born in London, England, but moved to Japan soon thereafter at the age of 4. He is the son of a Japanese mother and an American father and is one of four brothers in the family, all of whom attended ASIJ (Kai ‘14, Ian ‘17, Lee ‘22). His two older brothers Kai and Ian both graduated from ASIJ in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and his younger brother Lee is still at ASIJ and is currently a junior in high school. Hugh is also bilingual, speaking both Japanese and English.

At ASIJ, Hugh played varsity basketball for three years and was very involved in volunteer clubs in high school. As a junior, he started a club with the goal of breaking the barrier between international schools and local Japanese schools. The club, appropriately named Tokyo Sports Outreach, hosts Japanese elementary schools and pre-schools for youth sports clinics and has successfully hosted schools such as Musashino Gakuin Elementary School and Aoyama Gakuin Elementary School.

​Hugh was planning on attending Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, this past fall but decided to take a gap year due to the worsening state of COVID-19 in the United States. During his gap year, he has been interning for a professional basketball team in Tokyo, Japan, called the Earthfriends Tokyo Z in the B.League, primarily aiding in marketing and operations.

1:00 - Introduction

2:50 - Being an ASIJ senior during COVID-19

6:28 - Online learning during times of COVID-19

7:46 - Being an International school student during times of COVID-19

10:07 - Being an "ASIJ Lifer"

11:48 - Japan Seminar at ASIJ

12:39 - Tokyo Sports Outreach  

16:30 - Being half-Japanese and half-American

19:08 - Marketing intern at Earthfriends Tokyo Z

22:00 - Being half-Japanese and half-American pt2

24:22 - Marketing intern at Earthfriends Tokyo Z continued

27:33 - What is to come