Name: Kumiko Taguchi
Arrival in Australia: 1999
Occupation: Restaurant owner
Website: www.mihana.com.au
Location: Crows Nest, Sydney, Australia
Kumiko Taguchi had three reasons to visit Australia in 1999. To begin with, she was tired of her job in Japan; second, she wanted to see her brother who was living in Sydney; and third, she needed to improve her English to pursue her dream of running a shoe import business. After studying English for three months and attending a business school, she worked at a jewellery shop for several years before she opened her own restaurant, Mihana, in Crows Nest. As a long-term resident in Sydney, she feels right at home, but she also knows that she can be happy wherever she may find herself living in the future. In this episode of Japanese-on-the-Move, Kumiko tells us about Mihana’s business concept and shares her reflections about bilingual expressions of emotion.