Terumi Kondo

Japanese astrologer, interested in the subject from childhood as the daughter of a professional astrologer. Earning a BA degree in economics for the Ibaraki University, she did post-grad work for a year, at the same time as doing astrological forecasts. Terumi worked at the same company for 22 years, in the accounting department for a general construction company. Astrology remained a sideline and she began writing a forecast column for a magazine about 1996. Since 1997, she maintained a consultation room on the internet and by 2002, some 50,000 people use her web service. Terumi had an average childhood with one older sister. As well as an astrologer mother, she had a father who was a chef of French cuisine in a distinguished hotel. He died when she was 26. In 2002, Terumi was named the International Vice-President representing Japan for ISAR. In September 2001, she founded a new company, JANet, which provides astrological learning courses in Japanese. At present, astrology is not widely known in Japan and Terumi is one of the advocates of further education and promotion of professional astrology.