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(born September 26, 1936) is an educator and
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in Japan. His full name is Anton Wicky Ampalavanar. He was born in
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and went to Japan in 1961 as a
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scholar. In 1969 he earned a doctorate from the
University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...
. His teaching career has included Ohu and Reitaku Universities. He began his
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show ''Wicky-san's One-point English Conversation'' in 1979. It ran for fifteen years. The show began again in 2007. Since 2006, Wicky has appeared in commercials for Yellow Hat, a chain of automotive-supply retail stores.


References

Kobayashi Ginko: Minutes with our man on the street - Sri Lankan appeared on TV spot with unsuspecting Japanese. ''The Daily Yomiuri'' (Tokyo), October 13, 1994, p. 9.


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* Sri Lankan Tamil people Sri Lankan educators Sri Lankan expatriates in Japan Japanese people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent 1936 births Living people University of Tokyo alumni {{japan-activist-stub