Stephen Givens is a corporate lawyer and an adjunct professor at Keio University Law School in Tokyo.
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Contestants for the Sophian's Contest 2022 at Sophia University: The girls and boys who enter these competitions are unabashedly ambitious. (Photo courtesy of Sophian's Contest 2022)
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