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A lunch on meeting of our high school class was held last Friday at Marunouchi Club. We have it two times a year, in spring and autumn. It has been lead by Mr. Hiroshi Chiba who was a leader of class at the school. This time Mr. Yutaka Kose and Mr. Shin Kuniyasu helped him to ask the mates to join by calling each of them resulting in 12 mates attended (The photo below has eleven people not twelve because Mr. Michio Namiki from Nagoya city joined us but he had to leave earlier to attend another meeting.)
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I have not been able to join the meeting regularly because of overseas travel and other various events. As I received calls from Kuniyasu-san two times, I made efforts to join them this time. But I was delayed by thirty minutes for the meeting. The meeting had started already when I arrived and I missed a speech by Mr. Yoshiro Kobayashi. Mr. Kuniyasu reported he visited an antique shop specialized in ships in London while he was staying for last two months. The owner recommended him to buy a model of Japanese warship (total length: about three meters) called as Nippon-maru. He wanted to get more information about ship. Mr. Ryusuke Mizukami told he retired recently from a chemical products manufacturing company after long yeas. He explained how it was a difficult duty for managing chemical plants (including nuclear plants.) For example, if the management try to educate the whole employee the potential risks of nuclear plants, many young people will not stay at the plant. Mr. Shin Suzuki, a pioneer of environmental science in Japan, retired from related government committees and institutions. He is now editing his works at home. Mr. Mitsuo Namiki said he went to Peru in April and climbed one of the peaks over four thousands meters, The security there was not bad as he expected. Meanwhile Mr. Shichiro Kono who came back from a sight seeing group tour to Spain two days ago said that to go out to street at night was dangerous because of bad security. For example, a bus which took them to the night show was surrounded by guards armed with pistols while passengers ride on it at the hotel entrance. Mr. Nobuto Tsuchiya, a former engineer of a big power company, explained there would be absolutely no nuclear accident at atomic power plants. Mr．Tomio Ohya said it was his mistake that he became an architecture because he could not paint pictures well. As he worked for a construction company, he experienced a big difference between civil engineers and architects. (In fact I could not catch his speech well because of his low voice.) Mr. Seizo Muto are visiting many temples and Buddhist statues all over Japan but never has been to foreign countries. These days he is very busy for making lectures at various meetings. He said he needs four lectures of two hour to teach listeners to understand something about statues. Then my turn came. After I reported my tour to Arkansas, U.S.A. in short, I brought up the Nissan affairs. I told them my opinions on the matter as I wrote in this diary. Then the discussion begun. Mr. Mizukami said we might be able to criticize the government, but we do not know how we were going to solve the affairs. Mr. China started to talk his experience as a top executive of a ship company how it was hard to cut employees here. In the midst of discussions, it became a closing time of the meeting room. Mr. Kose could not make his speech.
All of them are older than seventy five years. Still they have vigorous energy.