Yoshi CANOPUS, also known as Yoshihiko MIKAMI (三上吉彦) in the virtual world, hails from Japan. He was educated in Japan, U.S. and China, in this order; worked in 1965-2001 for a computer company (IBM) in Japan, U.S. and Taiwan; and served in 2001-2012 in China. He is the author of four books, the last of which was a trilingual E/C/J book,
"Spring in Dalian / 大连之春 / 大連の春"
published in February, 2013, in Japan for worldwide distribution.
Since 2007, he has contributed to Wikipedia close to 800 articles and to Wikimedia over 180 photos, mainly on those items that he has personally experienced or directly/indirectly been involved in. See also his Wikimedia user page. This page is as of September 30, 2016.