Full-time lecturer at Lakeland University Japan, teaching courses on Anime and Manga, Japanese History and Society, as well as Intercultural Communication. He obtained his PhD in International Studies at Waseda University in 2024. In 2012 he he obtained the Monbukagakusho Scholarship and was appointed Student Ambassador of the Japan International Contents Festival by the Japanese Ministry of Economy and in 2016 he was appointed Cool Japan Ambassador by the Japan’s Prime Minister Cabinet Office. His research centers on understanding the global flow of Japanese media contents, focusing on the role of the Mexican fan community in promoting and distributing anime and manga. His experience with the media and his academic research has given him the opportunity to collaborate with different government agencies and private companies involved in the “Cool Japan Strategy” on developing projects to export Japanese contents such as Anime, Manga, Music, Videogames, and Film. This has made him familiar not only with all the unique places related to otaku culture in Japan but with many different aspects of the Japanese media production as well as its cultural significance and background. Edgar's other research interests include Japanese Modern History, IR of the Asia-Pacific Region and Mexico-Japan relations.