After two years of working in a factory of the National Railway, Yasundo longed for a more academic field. He resigned from the Railway and through Prof. Niwa found a teaching job at Yokahama Technical College.

Yasundo wrote in his diary "I am mediocre, not a genius, therefore the only way to get ahead is hard work!"

But he also loved fun: he was an avid moviegoer, collected classic music records and was a real shutter-bug!

Prof. & Mrs. Shigemitsu Niwa in their garden. Prof. Niwa introduced Yasundo to Kuwako Kusunoki.

On April 9, 1939, Yasundo Takahashi, 27, and Kuwako Kusunoki, 23, were married. They are greeting their friends at the reception at Tokyo Kaikan in Tokyo.

Their new life started at a rented house at Shibuya, Tokyo. Yasundo liked to have their two desks put together facing each other.