Alice Inoue
Alice Inoue (born July 17, 1964) is an astrologer, feng shui expert, author, and life coach from Hawaii. She is a former television presenter, most notably for her Do Sports program on Fuji News where she showcased activities for Japanese tourists visiting Hawaii. At the height of her media career, she had three television shows and four major sponsors. She has been featured in numerous publications including gracing the cover of MidWeek twice and appearing in Hawaii Business Magazine, Pacific Business News, The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, MidWeek, Homescapes, and Hawaii Home & Remodeling. Inoue is the founder and currently a life guide at Happiness U, a school for adults in Honolulu that provides advice and inspiration about life and happiness. She also has a weekly column in the Hawaii Renovation called Go Ask Alice where she answers readers' questions relating to life and feng shui. Early life and education Inoue was born in San Francisco, California, to a Taiwanese mother and German-Irish father. From the age of eight, she was raised bilingually in Taiwan, speaking both English and Mandarin. Graduating from Morrison Academy in 1981, Inoue returned to the United States to continue her education. She attended the University of California at Santa Cruz where she studied for four years, earning a degree in Biology as a pre-med student. Instead of pursuing medical school, Inoue moved to Japan to teach English while at the same time learned to speak Japanese. Career While in Japan, Inoue responded to a job advertisement seeking a bilingual assistant. She applied and was hired by Pacific Network Services, relocating to Hawaii in 1989. Inoue met and eventually married Egan Inoue, a former racquetball champion turned mixed martial arts practitioner. She transitioned into media where she worked as a live daily television show host, moving on to work as a bilingual news anchor and then host of her own Japanese television show. Inoue began her television career in commercials, including one with First Hawaiian Bank alongside Pat Morita. Her career also includes anchoring for Oahu Island News on the KVCN-TV for the Visitor Cable Network. The program is broadcast in over 28,000 hotel rooms throughout Hawaii. She also spent time as a co-host on KFVE's live game show, Times Super Bingo. Inoue also anchored for Aloha Times News on Japan TV News-NHK where she featured various segments on Hawaii tourism. She also had a featured sports program on Fuji News, Japan's top rated news network. The program, Do Sports, was taped in Japanese and tailored towards Japanese tourists. In the program, Inoue was featured trying new activities such as skydiving, high performance kite flying, wind sailing, and deep sea fishing. The show was so popular among Japanese tourists that she would often get stopped while in public in order to sign autographs and pose for pictures. Inoue began a career change in the late 1990s. After being told by an astrologer that she would be changing career paths, two years later, her television contracts reached