The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality.

Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.

Well we can't be having that. One person starts having fun and it turns into an epidemic. Difficult to stop that kind of thing, you know.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.