I have moved to Fukuoka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Tokyo, and Canada thirteen times, but returned to Kyoto in 2006, where I am currently working as a professor at Doshisha University. Currently, I serve as a board member, councilor, and assistant to the president within the university, and outside the university as president of the Japan Society of Christian Social Welfare, a position that is too heavy for my small frame. 　My children have grown up and left the university on their own. My eldest son, who is studying sociology in the U.S., got married in the summer of 2021 and has been living in Washington, D.C. with his wife, but has now returned to Japan after receiving his Ph.D. He is currently a research fellow (Gakushin, PD) at his alma mater, the University of Tokyo, and will be hired as a full-time faculty member at Keio University, where he will work from September. My second son, after four years of study in the Netherlands, is working as a design researcher studying AI and art, crossing borders to Amsterdam, London, and Tokyo, and working around the world. Our daughter will be married in the fall of 2021 and is studying in the doctoral program of the Graduate School of Human Sciences at Osaka University while practicing child welfare as a school social worker. 　 　

My wife and I have also graduated from childcare (and have separated from our children!). We are heading toward a new stage of our lives. PS The land tortoises in our garden, which span three generations, are doing well and we take care of them every day.


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