Megumi Ijiri Haskin describes herself as a "powerhouse." Indeed, indefatigable energy has defined every facet of her adventurous life journey. From her childhood in Yokohama onward, Ijiri Haskin longed to leave Japan to travel and live abroad.
"I used to tell myself that I didn't really belong there and that my true parents lived somewhere abroad," she says during an interview at the offices of GoGetterz, her Tokyo-based startup, an e-learning site.
Ijiri Haskin has a frenetic schedule: Every month she works in Tokyo for about two weeks, but the rest of the time she works from her home in Medina in Washington, near Seattle.