1. Primary school era
2. Junior high school era
3. High school era
4. Bachelor student era
5. Master course era
6. Doctor course era

Sayama primary school

This Sayama primary school is in the tee plant. Very quiet local place and we've experienced peace and quiet childhood. It was optimistic time because the examination war had not been in fashon.
Now I can remind THAT EVENT in my primary school days, and also I cannot forget it. On the day of entrance ceremony of the school, my mother had bought me a soap bubble. I was little child, so I'd hoped to play with it immediately. At the end of the ceremony, photography of my classmates was taken place as a formal event, the new students were with each own mother. But a boy who had been patient with a long time boring speech could't wait for freedom any more.
At last he let the photography hang and run to his home. The boy (it's me!!) enjoyed bubble, but after that he was scolded terribly. His mother said, "Irresponsibility is never forgiven". The sentence was deeply etched in his mind, and it became the subjects of free compositions at the end of my school days.

On the other hand, the results of the examination have always been failing grade... But my parents said to me that I have to be just HEALTHY, I've been free from some pressure of duty being elite. Also when I stood for a member of the student council, I got only 5 votes from 500 students.
These memories indicates the fact that I have no intelligence and no confidence in those days. But I was so healthy that I got a reward for perfect attendance, and I have pure face even now, I am happy.
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Musashi junior high school

Before I entered Musashi junior high, it is infamous for being delapidated. But new schools were constructed in the previous year, then awesome students were all moved to those, and Musashi junior high immediately became the model school in Saitama prefecture.

Little before I graduated the primary school, I was encouraged because I could just read kanji "YOURYOKUTAI" (chloroplast in japanese), and since it happened, I began to be regarded as the honor student! Because I was very simple, even now of course, I got confidence in me. Then I worked hard and my school work got steadily better. In the junior high days, on the other hand, I belonged to volleyball team, and I enjoyed as a captain and an ace atacker in it.

Contrary to primary school days, I won prizes of concours about kanji. We had a road race rally in all high school every year. At the first grade, I got the 42nd place. Next year, at the second grade, I was 29th. Then the last year, at the last grade, I won 9th place at last. I trained my gutts and sense of responsibility in my junior high school days.

But if judged only from memories mentioned above, it appears that I spent glorious days, but it is not in fact. Because I was far from love affair. I remind one incident that I was asked some advise by the girl I loved. She asked me, "How do you think about a guy next to you? Does he like me?"....
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Kawagoe high school

Why boy's school?! I don't know.
I belonged to the music club, and I happened to know that singing sometimes become sports. In the 1st grade, the party with neighbor girl's high school students was taken place. No, no, we were all still innocent and pure. Boys were like babies, Girls were like boys.
At that day, I'm sorry that the annual concert of Keio university Wagner male choir in which many OBs of my club had promoted is on. My friends and I tearfully left party and went to the concert.
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But that concert became the turning point of my life in fact, nevertheless it was very important for getting a chance for love affair. It is, needless to say, because I chose that choir, that univ..

I appreciate much encounter of precious friends and the tradition of our high school.

Keio University, Department of Science and Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
-- Undergraduated era --

I preferred the private university having a good chorus circle originally, because I thought campus life is not only for studying, but for experiencing many many things. And also because I felt that public universities in Japan tended to produce those who lack sorts of valance and warmheartedness. (Such conviction is still alive even now I graduated a private univ. and work at a famous public univ...)

I took only two entrance examinations of Waseda Univ. (for Waseda university Glee club) and Keio Univ. (for Keio Wagner) because they have great and famous chorus clubs. As the result, I passed only one for Keio univ., and entered Keio Univ., luckily in fact. I guess that the cause of my luck was a headache and being sick at the examination.

Then I did nothing but singing for whole 4 years.
At the 4th grade, we must write our bachelor theses. The theme of my bachelor thesis was worked out in one night. Then, I began the research about human vocal emotion, and it has been continued and enlarged from then on.
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I did nothing but singing for whole of my campus life, so I studied hard for my parents in the master course. :-P
Although I concentrated all my efforts on the master thesis in excess of my ability, I failed to control the pace to proceed experiments and discussions, and I felt much difficulty in the latter half of the 2nd grade year, but it was finally successful.

Then I decided to proceed to the doctor course for continuing my study about human vocal emotion.
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In addition to research, I have done many things in terms of academic works. Especially at the second degree, a lot of things, for instance, the first international conference in Munich ( IEEE ICASSP 97) in April, the local arrangement of the annual conference of the acoustic socity of Japan in March, some relation with some venture people, and a collaboration with Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology whole through the year.

Moreover, this D2 year was special. I had some concerts where I sang as a solo tenor singer like Pavarotti!! I took part in some professional players and played 'WEST SIDE STORY', and in other chance, I had family concerts with my friends.

Whole through my student life, I listened to music and learned many things from it. Especially what I emphasize is the beauty of japanese nature. This makes japanese culture, atmosphere, women, and the ability. I was blessed much time for thinking, so I could establish from the nature.