C. W. Nicol
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Clive Williams Nicol (Born 1940) is a Welsh writer and actor and a long time resident and citizen of Japan.
[edit] Biography
C.W. Nicol was born in Neath, Wales, and from a young age expressed an interest in wildlife and the environment. In 1958 he visited the Arctic circle to research elder ducks for McGill University. He also spent two years in Ethiopia working as a game warden in one of Ethiopia's national parks. By the early 1960s he was studying karate in Japan, and soon thereafter began to study Japanese at Nihon University. He has lived in Japan since this time.
Since taking up residence in Japan he has written many books and other literary works. In 1980 he won the Japan Broadcasting Writer's Award for a television drama written in Japanese. He also soon became an active environmentalist, and to this day travels both within and outside of Japan giving talks and lectures regarding the environment; addressing issues such as deforestation and the preservation of natural environments. He is particularly interested in restoring Japan's vast woodlands, and due to these and other endeavours is quite famed in Japan.
He holds Japanese citizenship, which he wrote about in the book Boku ga Nihonjin ni natta riyū ("Why I became Japanese") and resides in a plot of forest land he owns in Japan with his wife and two daughters.
He has written books both fictional and non-fictional in Japanese, including books about whaling (for which he went on a trip on a whaling vessel), books regarding the environment, and also fictional children's books. However these may have been ghost written.
