From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction that only the achievement of a long held, worthwhile goal can give].

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.