Thane Camus

His mother remarried a Japanese manager of a Middle Eastern airline, and the family left the United States when Camus was 6 months old, living in the Bahamas, Greece, Lebanon, and Egypt before settling in Fujisawa around 1976 or 1977.

[4] Camus has a younger sister with autism, and serves as a director of a non-profit organization promoting artistic opportunities for disabled people.

[5] Shortly after returning from Hofstra in 1991, Camus made his first TV appearance on NHK, helping to present an English educational program.

[citation needed] During this phase of his career, Camus was affiliated with R&A Promotion, the talent agency of Motoko Inagawa, which employed many prominent foreign celebrities in Japan.

According to journalist Yohei Hoshino, R&A also pressured television networks and advertising agencies to blacklist Camus in the wake of his departure.