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Chinese professors arrived

Seven professors from Beihang University visited our institute, one of whom used to work together with us. It has been half a year since she left. She received her Ph. D in China, came to Japan with her husband, and had worked in Japan for five years. Now she is an associate professor in the university in Beijing. The Chinese professors had lunch together with us. Three out of seven professors spoke good Japanese, because they used to study and work in Japan. It is not common now to find Chinese professors speaking Japanese, because Chinese students and researchers tend to go study in the US. The Chinese dean told … Continue reading

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January 3, 2007, Last day in Sanya, China

It was the last day for us to stay together. I was scheduled to fly to Shanghai, and subsequently to Narita on that day. Katya was staying one more day in Sanya.  The next day, she would fly to Beijing, stay one night there, and fly to Vladivostok. We walked around the town and left at the airport. Katya was planning to come to Japan in April to start learning Japanese in a Japanese school in Kofu. I was busy preparing many bureaucratic forms to get a student visa for her, which was more complicated than the tourist visa to Japan the year before. I did not feel too sad … Continue reading

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On Katya’s side

Just before she came to Japan at the end of April, 2007, Katya sent me from Vladivostok a black-ink drawing  she had bought in an art festival held in Beijing, with a green shirt for my birthday on April 22.  I ordered a frame for it right after I received it. So when she arrived, two artworks increased in my former apartment. After we moved to our present apartment, most of the pictures are not put on the wall, some of which I will show you with the memories.

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