from left: my younger generation, the daughter of the president of Singapore company, myself (at Singapore) [July, 1988 Hong Kong] I can go with the locals when I go for a business trip, different from sightseeing tour. As said previously …

Market in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong [July, 1988 Hong Kong] During this trip, I was often called out both in Singapore and Hong Kong. “Hi, don’t you want a fake watch?” in Japanese. They said “fake watch” honestly. Didn’t matter because the b…

Double Decker in Hong Kong [July, 1988 Hong Kong] We could have time for a half day. I planed to take my younger generation for sightseeing even at least one place, then I decided to take him to Tiger Balm Garden. It’s a mansion and garden…

Japan Airlines (JAL) and Cathay Pacific [July, 1988 Hong Kong] It was quite a turbulent flight but arrived at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport safe and sound. Relieved. I visited our customer after checked in the hotel, and told the purpose of my…

[July, 1988 from Singapore to Hong Kong] All the schedule in Singapore was finished and the day had come to leave for Hong Kong. I was to take a morning flight to visit a company in Hong Kong in the evening. The president of the Hong Kong …

Merlion (left) and Anderson bridge, Singapore [July, 1988 Singapore] HOT anyway! Or so much humidity. It’s said humidity in Osaka is so high, but it was not out of comparison. My shirts were drenched in sweat due to my character of free sw…

Fixed-routed bus, Singapore [July, 1988 Singspore] Lunch time. I didn’t want to have lunch in a restaurant for tourists but to humble one where citizens well go. Singapore is a multi-racial country, with Malay, Chinese, Indian, Arab and ma…

Marina Bay, Singapore [July, 1988 Singapore] It was hot even in the night on arrival yesterday, so no need to say in the day time. At one degree north latitude, the sun was in north over our heads that made shadow to south. Never seen the …

No garbage on the streets in Singapore [July, 1988 Singapore] I went out to the town next morning. Clean town without garbage. I remember nothing was on the roads and streets but leaves. It was as people said. Penalty is claimed for throwi…

Merlion, Singapore [July, 1988 Singapore] I arrived at Singapore Changi Airport around 10:00 in the evening. July, it was hot with much humidity there almost just under the equator. So hot even in the night. Since the president’s daughter …

Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport [July, 1988 Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport] July in 1988, the time has come for my first business trip, to Singapore and Hong Kong. Yeah I could go to Hong Kong again! I had a little immunity as the second time. I didn…

[1982 - 1984] There’s such an interesting area with different language, culture, daily life, circumstances… 2,500km in only about 4 hours away from Osaka. The earth is big! The farer, the more interesting things must exist. I wanted to go …

Hong Kong island from Kowloon (November, 1982) [November, 1982 Hong Kong] There’re many direct flight services between China and Japan these days even from/to local cities. But it’s said that no direct flight was served those days although…

Kowloon from Hong Kong island (November, 1982) [November, 1982 Hong Kong] At the inspection counter in Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport for departure, the final barrier waited for me. My hard case for camera was targeted. The inspector opened it …

with Vincent Van Patten at Hong Kong [November, 1982 Hong Kong] I was at the entrance of the Hotel we stayed in the morning of the leaving day. It was a little early though we were to get together there. Many luggages were put by the entra…

[November, 1982 Hong Kong] I like coffee and often drink. Black coffee is my favourite now, that was caused in this Hong Kong tour. Hangout in our university days was a cafe, where I often went with my friends. Sugar and milk were put in c…

The monument of analects of Mao Tse-Tung (Guangzhou) [November, 1982 Hong Kong] We travelled Guilin and Guangzhou, and returned Hong Kong. During the tour we had the local foods, i.e. Chinese food, then I’d felt uncomfortable since I had i…

Boarding pass for China domestic flight [November, 1982 Guangzhou, China] Time to leave for Hong Kong. I could pass the inspection for departure quickly without any problem differently from on arrival. Our boarding aircraft was parking a l…

Guilin, China [November, 1982 Guilin, China] We went a department store in the early evening before dinner. It was called a department store but quite different what we imaged. Lights were not enough bright, goods were not so many and no s…

Yangshuo, China [November, 1982 Yangshuo, China] How many surprises happen to me? Many children gathered at the tourist areas. Children at the same-age-looked as the boy taking an ox were also there. They also might not be in the circumsta…

Yangshuo, China [November, 1982 Yangshuo, China] Many people were at the tourist areas but most of them were tourists. The Chinese people still seemed to have no room for sightseeing elegantly. Actually I saw many local people but they wer…

Guilin, China [November, 1982 Guilin, China] Many people were playing Taijiquan, a kind of traditional Chinese shadow boxing, in the park in the early morning in Guilin. As we well heard. People were working in the farm in suburb. As menti…

Guilin, China [November, 1982 Guilin, China] We arrived in Guilin from Guangzhou. Variety of curious rock mountains in karst landform made beautiful view, as if we strayed into the world of the painting of Chinese ink. But they might be us…

Giant Panda at Guilin Zoo [November, 1982 Guangzhou, China] Arrived in China main land, at Guangzhou Baiyun International airport in China for transit to Guilin. All the procedure for entering into China was taken here and was to fly by a …

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong [November, 1982 Hong Kong] So many people on Nathan Road! Approx. 5.5 million people were living in 1,104 square kilo metres in around 1982. Population density is approx. 5,000 per square kilo metre. But it’s the av…

Restaurant JUMBO [November, 1982 Hong Kong] After the sightseeing in a day time we went to a restaurant for dinner. In Natan Road, the main street in Kowloon, the neon signs in the fundamental colour were too shiny. Not only the fundamenta…

My first view of the foreign country [November, 1982 Hong Kong] Everything was ready for going abroad. In November, 1982, I took off from Osaka International Airport. 12 years before Kansai Airport was opened. Beautiful day. I flew over th…

My first passport [Autumn, 1982 Osaka, Japan] Although it was a small company with about 15 employees, they were doing well to have a company trip to abroad every year, in spite of that the expense for the company trip fees to abroad was n…

Osaka University of Foreign Studies [April, 1977 Osaka, Japan] I came out to Osaka on 13th April, 1977 when I was 18 years and 24 days old leaving my parents’ house in a rural place in Hyogo prefecture. Because I luckily passed the entranc…

[March, 2021 Osaka, Japan] I became sixty years old in 2019. “Wow, such an age I’ve become!? No feeling at all.” Most of the people at this age might feel the same. It’s said when people become 60 years old they return to the year of birth…