Nicholas Kemp

Nicholas Kemp is a Japanologist, researcher, podcaster and author of IKIGAI-KAN: Feel a Life Worth Living. He is the founder and head coach of Ikigai Tribe, a small community of educators, psychologists, coaches and trainers who serve their personal communities using the ikigai concept. Nick has operated several educational and marketing businesses over the past two decades. He established his own English conversation school in Japan and developed an audio language learning program for Japanese learners of English. His understanding of the Japanese language and culture helps serve him as a consultant for companies wishing to expand their businesses to Japan. He now trains educators, psychologists, coaches and professionals with his Ikigai Coach certification program. His program is supported by many of Japan’s leading ikigai authorities who are contributors to his certification program and appear as regular guests on his podcast. As an amateur guitarist and aspiring musician Nick is still hoping to live the rockstar dream one day. A lover of learning, Nick has recently taken up the Shakuhachi much to the frustration of his wife and son. He often shares cuddles and purrs with his cat as sharing cuddles with his wife and son have become increasingly rare. He spends his time between Melbourne, Australia and Japan when not stuck in a pandemic and sees himself retiring in Japan where he will continue his ikigai of researching Japanese culture. "I have had a love affair with Japan ever since I first visited the country at the age of five. Some 45 years later my relationship with Japan has never been more intimate. The older I get the more I seem to discover how unique, beautiful and wise the culture and people of Japan are. I hope IKIGAI-KAN: Feel a Life Worth Living provides the reader with an accurate and honest representation of the Japanese concept of ikigai. "