RAISING eyebrows in the marketing and media community recently was the confirmation of the world’s first western Geisha Fiona Graham aka Sayuki’s appearance at the 6th Malaysian Media Conference (MMC) on July 22 in Kuala Lumpur.
An internationally sought after speaker, Sayuki (her name means transparent happiness) took her doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford and specialises in Japanese society. She has spent half of her life in Japan, went through Japanese schools and graduated from Japan’s oldest university, Keio. Sayuki has also lectured at a number of universities around the world, published extensively on Japanese culture and is an anthropological film director with production credits on a wide range of international broadcasters.
