page_title: Alice Inoue
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Alice Inoue / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Inoue speaking at the opening of the Patsy T. Mink Center for Business &amp; Leadership in Honolulu, HI.
context_page_description: Alice Inoue 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.
context_section_description: 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 their end and she was unemployed. Inoue was quoted as saying "that moment I knew that this is what I've come here to do." She began focusing on astrology and taking courses on feng shui. Inoue became a minister in 2001, marrying close to 900 couples since being ordained. She also began study of feng shui and astrology. In 2008 she joined forces with Oceanic Time Warner Cable to produce a series of feng shui instructional DVDs based on her signature presentations. Inoue performs work as a life guide under her consultancy Alice Inoue Life Guidance. In 2013 she expanded her consultancy to include Happiness U, a school for adults in Honolulu that provides advice and inspiration about life and happiness. It was reported that she has provided guidance for 3,000 people with 500 of them being regular clients. Happiness U began offering courses for businesses to cope with the live changing situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
  Inoue is also a writer and has authored eight books. She is a contributing author in the national best seller, Wake Up…Live the Life You Love with Passion, a compilation of self-development philosophies by great thinkers such as Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer. She published her own book, A Loving Guide to These Shifting Times, in 2008 with a second book, Be Happy!  It's Your Choice released in 2009. Additional books include Feng Shui Your Life! (2009). Inoue has also released three instructional DVDs that cover feng shui topics. In 2019, Inoue released Master Your Superpowers, a book utilizing the Chinese Five Elements to identify personality traits that can improve someone's wellness and mindful living.
caption: Inoue speaking at the opening of the Patsy T. Mink Center for Business & Leadership in Honolulu, HI (2014).
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