I happened to arrive in Japan just at the right time. A group of Cornell students were in Japan for a study course, one month, and a lot of beautiful cherry blossoms were coming out. Cornell graduates in Japan were about 10 in 1976 and now more than 76.
With a friend’s, and Cornell graduate’s, company employees. Two people from me is Ryoichi (Joe) Shiratsuchi, the boss, and Bob Nellis’s son Scott next to me.In Osaka with Sang Hong (Seoul) Lee, my former roommate, John Hamada ’65, and Mano Pak, a former student, a close friend, and the one who encouraged his Nephew, Sang Il, to attend Cornell.Betty Shibata passed away the year before so I visited her grave. Her father on the left received an honorary doctorate the year Betty graduated. He was the first and so far the only Japanese President of Rotary International, a very influential person in US-Japan relations as was Betty.At Yukko’s entertainment establishment in Golden Gai Shinjuku with the Dates to the left, good friends, and Scott Nellis, rapidly learning Japanese and working here.The Kobe reception for the Cornell students in Japan for a month on interdisciplinary studies.Kawasaki-san talking about his enjoyments at Cornell and welcoming students. He is a well known potterHappy students with Hiroko and her husband in the back. Hiroko was the first blind Japanese student to attend a regular curriculum (not specialized for the blind) in the US. With Akira Kasano, the Cornell soccer goalie, on the left and his friend Inoue-san at a night club in Wakayama.
