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After living in California over 20 years, we returned to live in Japan and this was an interesting experience for us. We lived in an apartment building where many faculty members lived and we acquired many friends. Some of them remain close to this day. President Sakaki was an old friend and Yasundo enjoyed helping him at this brand new institute. |
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Prof. Shiro Usui and his wife Kazuko with their son at their apartment in Toyohashi. Shiro had received his Ph.D. from U.C.B. and we became very good friends with both of them. |
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Prof. Shiro Usui of TUT writes about Yasundo. |
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"I was so surprised and happy to see Prof. Takahashi at TUT in September 1979. Years earlier, when I was finishing my studies at Berkeley, I asked him to be the chair for screening my Ph.D thesis, even though he had a reputation of being extra severe to the Japanese students, because he cared. He was like a god to me. I took his courses ME232, 233, 234 for a year. His lecture notes, 6 cm ( 2 2/5") thick, are still my treasure. "As the head of the International Exchange Committee and the Language Center at TUT, Prof. Takahashi freely demonstrated his ideas, unfettered by Japanese bureaucracy. I have a fond memory of one incident when Yasundo insisted on cleaning some dirty windows himself to the horror of officers! I was very happy to serve on the same committees. At first he used an electric calculator, but upon my suggestion he switched to a computer and right away, he got immersed in using it. "Since all the control people in Japan were his students or followers, we applied for a grant to further the study of Digital Control. The grant was approved and the project was realized by the leading members of control people in Japan. "To recognize all the contributions Prof. Takahashi made, we worked for an award from the Emperor. When he received the Third Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor in November 1994, we were all so happy and had a big party in Toyohashi for him." |
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Shiro Usui |
