When James Oliveira, a California State University, Dominguez Hills senior, arrived in Japan as an exchange student, he quickly discovered the country had a number of unspoken “rules.” For example, whenever you ride an escalator in Tokyo, the left side is for standing only and the right side is for people who are in a hurry and walking fast. In life, it could be said that this marketing major, who is minoring in Japanese, is always on the right side of the escalator, seizing every opportunity that comes his way.