Introduction:

The newly-opened Engineering Department at Nagoya University had nothing - no equipment, no staff, etc. Yasundo set up a laboratory and began to train workers. Under the shadow of the approaching war, life became more and more difficult. Coffee, bread, and meat became scarce. We found our pleasure in the company of friends with whom we could talk frankly. We enjoyed two trips: to Kyushu and Kobe in 1941 and to Manchuria and Korea in 1942. Yasundo translated two books on heat transfer from the original German to Japanese (one by M. Ten Bosch and the second by Schack, both titled "Warmeübertragung"). He also pursued his own research on regenerator theories.

1941

Dinner at home with invited friends. From left, Yoneichiro Sakaki, Yasundo's colleague at the University, and his wife Fumiko whom I had known since grammar school; my sister Hisako "Chako" Kusunoki; and Rev. Floyd Roberts whose family had gone home because of the tension between the USA and Japan, Kuwako and Yasundo Takahashi. Much later, in 1970, Mr. Sakaki became the Founding President of Toyohashi University of Technology. He invited Yasundo to teach there after his retirement from UCB in 1979.

Rev. Roberts invited us all to his vacation cottage by Lake Nojiri near Nagano, site of the 1998 Winter Olympic Games.

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Our tribute to our host: a snowman of Rev. Roberts with a bright red apple heart.