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…