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 November 5/6, 2026

I went to Keiyu Hospital on Thursday. It is always a nice routine. Ride 58 bus from Tofukuin and many Tateno High School students get off, so most of time I can have a seat. It was raining so many people rode the bus instead oof walking. It became very crowded but by Yamashita Cho, Motomachi Chukagai Subway station people got off. I change to a subway at Nihon Ohdori because the escalator is waiting right in front of the bus stop. I get off at MinatoMirai station, only two stops but it is nice to have a place like New York Manhattan style place. I walk one block and impressive hospital building is there. I reserve 9:30 and meet the doctor, actually he is the head or CEO of the hospital and expert in Vascular field.

He said I am all right and can walk and keep the band with the leg. He asked how many kilometers I walk every day. I said about 3,000m. He responded that to improve my leg situation I should walk more every day, about 10,000m.

So,

I can walk now, but I have to walk everyday.

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 November 3, 2026

Dear Friends

Squirrels come to our garden to build their den/nest. Last time I saw their house was destroyed by some birds. So, I though they are not around. Today I saw them trying to build their den/house by getting some branches from our garden.

Welcome back and good luck.

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 November 2, 2026

I went to the War Cemetery of Hodogaya Commonwealth Nations War Cemetery with Rev. Dick of Yokohama Christ Church. He explained why the name of the British Commonwealth Nations "British" was dropped out. Today the Commonwealth Nations are not only from the nations of the British Empire, but others are participating and it is economic group.

On the way we had a chance of talking about our background and he mentioned in 1984 he came to Japan as an Anglican volunteer to the Asian Rural Society and later got married to a Japanese woman and lived in the Philippines in 1990's and told me there is a Christian Congregation group called the Independent Church of Philippines participating in the Anglican bishops of the Philippines with a Catholic tradition but not part of the Roman Church under the Vatican Pope because of their independent movement in the Spanish colonial days.

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 November 1, 2026

All Saints Day

Today is All Saints Day. Yokohama Christ Church members went to the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery for the prayer at their grave. 

Yokohama Union Church member is collecting donation for a girl in an orphanage for her school "RANDOSERU".  She was adopted to St. Mary's International School graduate whom I thought he was a wealthy and highly educated man married without a child. However, he was not nice as he looks, and she was put into the Japanese government protection and went back to an orphanage. She was a student at Yokohama Christian School when the government protected her. She is now entering an elementary school, so the church members are collecting money to donate her a "RANDOSERU".

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 October 30, 2026

Facebook has a meaning.   SJC grad. Endo put on Facebook that the funeral of Ritchie will take place today at 11 in Sacred Heart Cathedral.

I thought it was another Halloween joke. However, John Fanourakis wrote it is too young for Ritchie to die at the age of 66. I look at the Facebook

carefully and saw the sign of the funeral of Ritchie will take place at the Sacred Heart Cathedral from 11 to 12.  It was 10:55. I rushed to a casual suit with a tie and went to the Cathedral and able to attend the Funeral Mass.

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 On October 26 NHK 世紀の映像

With the Great Depression 

America faced unbelievable happening from the loss of wealth, so FDR , the president created two things not to repeat, one was to separate the Security business with banking, the other is oversee the New York Stock Exchange. This was the base of the American economy till Republicans under Ike, Nixon, Reagan and the others changed them.

Why this took place is with Ayn Rand's philosophy of Laises fairs and Federal Reserve head for many years Mr. Greenspan was her disciple appointed by Dick Nixon to lead it. He lowered the interest rate and made the USA great again even though he had been challenged many times but overcame the difficulties.  I t eventually caused the money flow to the real estate and housing with subprime loans. When money overflows, it will eventually go to the investment in land, but this took place later in Greenspan era. It was well managed and people said he was a "maestro", master of money control.

The other was a very successful investor during the booming 1920's and lost everything with the crush. Benjamin Graham later had a chance to teach at Columbia University, Business School.  Mr. Warren Buffett took his course. It was based on the concept of value investing.

Buffett invested with the value investing and became very successful. He shares his knowledge and wealth with other people and people like him very much.

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 October 25, 2026

Dear Romans and Friends

Sunday Report

I went to Yokohama Christ Church at 9 and enjoy the sermon. right after the Autumn Bazaar took place, started to rain but stop and restarted to rain in the afternoon. I met Rex and two scholars teaching Keio U. and MD in the advance hospital near Haneda who had a sabbatical in the UK with very intelligent very young daughter and a son as usual kid. I spent 3, 000 yen for the cakes, hot dog and other goodies.  I told the rector that my appointment with him to take the war cemetery will be postponed to next Monday because His Majesty Ambassador is visiting the Yokohama area and I have to escort her. He said he would like to come with me to see the new ambassador, so I accept it, anyway it is his ambassador.

I met Rex, a Canadian gentleman whose wife is a St. Maur International school 3rd grade teacher, and I will continue meeting him to know better about the Canadian international school system to have a Canadian style education in Japan instead of American or British ones coming here in flocks. There are several reasons I think a Canadian system is good for Japan.

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 October 22/23, 2026

a report on a thought of a day

i went to see my mentor Mr. Tomioka about knowing the world today, concentrating with China and the future of the world under AI.

After a nice talk and very impressive one, I had a chance to have a lunch at the Japanese style rich farmhouse with Yakitori filled with the tourists around the world in Nishi Azabu.

I had to deliver the Remembrance Day Poppy Appeal to Beyondia International School Mita. Their enrollment now is 27 and growing in Minato-ku. 

On the way back I received a call from the British Embassy Tokyo/Osaka that the new Ambassador would like to have an escort tour of the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery on Monday October 26th Monday afternoon though I am not on the Board of the Cemetery, so I asked the Caretaker Mr. Higuchi about this and the Chairman of the Cemetery is busy on the day, and he is off duty on the day and plus it is the request of the Ambassador to have me do the escort, so I accept it.

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 October 21, 2026

Something I learned from visiting Beyondia International School Yamata Kindergarten.

I had a chance to attend the workshop of Dianne Sensei, a Senzonzoku College of Music professor for Musical Performance.

I realize that Musical or Play was very important of language and discipline education among the international schools and may be far important than IB or other activities they have in the international school curriculum and very good topic to study for Content and Language Integrated Learning which is spreading in Europe and now in Japan.

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 October 18, 2026 

Dear Ryan and Friends

I went to Yokohama Christ Church and found out that I am listed as one of the sick persons

to be prayed during the service. I had a leg injury and took several months to be healed and was on the list of prayer.

I mentioned to my Keio University professor at the service that I missed this summer lessons at Hiyoshi. I said my fear is that I don't have the drive to return to studies.  I mentioned that Keio and other universities in Japan should be like Harvard have free online courses for people. He mentioned the president of Keio University is now also head of all private universities in Japan. I do hope they will upgrade the " correspondence courses" to the level of the USA universities.  I said I might consider attending Harvard instead of Keio. He said MIT stated this free online course and now Harvard and the others have it too. I checked and found out they do have and plus Johns Hopkins too.  Now I realize what the writer in Japan said to the Junior High School students visiting Ogata Kouan 's house now run by the University of Osaka that it is very important to learn English today because the information you receive from Google in English is far more than in Japanese and it is true also with university studies 

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 October 17, 2026

A thought of a day.

There are two big groups influencing Yokohama world as my daughter said and I think so too.

One is the Port group港湾, port authority and teamsters. And the mayor who was elected and resigned is backed by the group.

The other is by Chamber of Commerce group like Art Jewelry/Bashamichi, Yokohama Rotary Club, Chikazawa/Motomachi,Kiyouken, Yuurindou, and shop owners and people gather around the New Grand Hotel They are for the bright lady highly educated woman.

Let's see who will be chosen this time.

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 October 16, 2026

Some thoughts of a day

I went to Yokohama International School in Honmoku, actually it is in Kominato.  I could see many students walking from bus stops and neighborhood. That was the initially idea the Yokohama City had in mind when the Honmoku Area was returned to Japan from the long occupation by the American Armed Forces.  It took thirty years from YIS has come from Yamate.  I tried to see Darren in charge of YIS but the security was tight and it was hard to go through their rituals of entrance. I find similar thing happening in the Australian Embassy and most probably others too.

I am bringing the Remembrance Day Poppy

Appeal materials to YIs and Beyondia International School.

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 October 14, 2026

Today was fine and rained and cloudy. 

I met Rex on Friday and got some idea for the Canadian education. He mentioned that under the first Trudeau Prime minister, Canada made its policy change to multi-racial society and the red maple leaf flag. Ever since that time Canda's migration went up and Rex thinks it is beyond what they can hold.

Rex mentioned that the Chinese come with mother and kid to get education and father works in China to support them.  I heard the same thing happened in Korea about thirty years ago to the USA. Japanese migrated before the war and had a hard time during the Worl War II, so migration to both Canada and the USA are not likely popular like those days. Those days most of the Japanese were laborers like farmers or fishermen and today their children are professionals and would not like to do as their fathers, but Rex said there are about 100,000 Japanese descendants in Vancouver area.

Rex said that the elite education in Canada is getting expensive and Appleby College in Oakville Ontario costs Gade 7 and 8 Canadian$ 48,000 CDN, Garde 11 and 12 $58,000CDN        Upper Canada College where his daughter went in Toronto, Ontario is Domestic boarder $82,000 CDN and International boarder $89,000 CDN.

Canadian dollar is 85 cents to American dollar.

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 October 12/13, 2026

Some thoughts from a day

I was at the Alumni meeting on October 3, 2026

It was supposed to be a memorial day for the graduates of SJC/SJIS died, but the name of Pedro Guzon, Ippei Iwasaki was not there and some others too. I thought we had missed the list but I remember we told the person in charge. He is getting old and memory is fading. I think it could happen to me or others. I can't blame him.  I am wondering to continue studying in Keio but I may think it over. I will decide it in December or January.  We are getting old and the memory may fade as any other person.

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 October 10/11, 2026

Dear Friends A Blog a day

As my student, Ryan Tsai is writing his journal a day. I should also write a Blog or a Journal a day. I don't know I have a discipline to so. Let us see!   HAHAHA

I met Rex Thomson on Friday, October 9th at a Cafe near Naka Sports Center.    I have the idea that the international school should look more into Canada than the USA or Australia.     New Zealand is a nice country, but it is small. I am trying to get much more information on     Canada. I met a Canadian military Attache last year and found that he was very friendly and nice. Through him I had a chance to take the principal of Beyondia International School to the embassy and later to their library. I heard from the principal that there were many Chinese and Korean at the library. They are fast to learn anything good.     

Right now, I am getting more information on Canada through Rex. He is my friend from Yokohama Christ Church, and his wife is a fourth-grade teacher at St. Maur International School. He is a financial planner from Canadian financial bank. His wife and he was at Bangalore, India before coming to Japan. She was teaching and administrating an international school in India and he was there, too.

    

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 October 6, 2026

The last St. Joseph School Festival 

on September 27, Sunday at Tsurumi.

A Paradise Lost: St. Joseph School was kind not only to students but also to the teachers. They will be handed over to a "Cramming" school in Saitama, Kaichi and name will change and ending as a Catholic school.

According to a lady who is the 10th graduate of the school said that the Atonement Society is a Franciscan Society and not fit to run a school like Jesuits or Marianists.

They should have told the graduates that they are in financial difficulties.

I was a speech judge of the school for over thirty years, loved and respected their spirit. It is very unfortunate to see two St. Joseph schools had terminated. They had very good heart. I think that is the most important thing.