May 2022

I was surprised to see how much he had changed in appearance. Well, both of us had changed. Anyway, we could meet after a 30 year interval. Usually, I would take such a “celebrity” to a fancy restaurant. But he wanted to go to a “hidden local pub.” Honestly, as I am not much of

He is a very busy man, and I didn’t think he would come to Okinawa with a very tight schedule. I asked him to fix a day for us and call me when he got to the pub. I decided to take the afternoon off to be as accommodating as possible to his movements on

We exchanged a few emails. I felt that was enough and that we were not close enough to have an overly intimate exchange, so I thought I should keep a low profile. He would reply to my messages but never texted me aggressively, so I figured that this level of personal distance would be just