Jeff Ogrisseg is a staff writer and domestic news and business editor for The Japan Times in Tokyo. He is a former Navy Journalist and former Navy Air Traffic Controller. Jeff has spent 13 years out of the last 15 in the Pacific area, including a total of eight years in and around Japan. He has made his home in Yokosuka, near the area once governed by William Adams, the real-life John Blackthorne in James Clavell's "Shogun." Jeff's web site, "The Voice of Common Hills," may perhaps contain the only on-line information available anywhere on Will Adams and his accomplishments.

Articles by Jeff Ogrisseg: "A Look Inside Japanese Baseball " "Confessions of a first-time skier" "Tribe fans are everywhere" "A Brief History of William Adams" "Monument on the 13th Pass" "Monument on the 13th Pass" "Japan may finally be saying 'no' to itself"