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Born in London, England in 1964, he was raised in England, Canada, Poland, and Turkey. A member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a worldwide Roman Catholic Order of Priests, since 1981, he was sent to Japan in 1985. He has taught Japanese and global history at Sophia University in Tokyo, the University of Oxford, and Georgetown University. In 2013 he joined the faculty at the University of San Francisco, where he was subsequently appointed Director of the Ricci-Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, a premier center for the study of Christianity in East Asia. He frequently lectures around the world on topics related to the encounter of Christianity with Japan and China in the 16th and 17th centuries.