Takashi has left for California.

  Takashi has gone back to his home in California. Ayako drove him to Itoi railroad station at 9:00 a.m. He will fly to Haneda and then, by limo, will go to Narita Airport. He will leave Japan at 5:00 p.m.
  During his stay here, he talked about his lecture in Tokyo. He lectured on "What Japan should do and can do in the international society?" He says Japan has experienced a lot of things that most developing countries have not yet experienced, or are now experiencing, or will experience in the future. We have the experience of modernization in the Meiji Era. We have experienced the war in which the country had completely been destroyed but succeeded in recovering from the destruction. We even experienced atomic bomb attacks. We have been hit by big earthquakes and tsunami, including the Kanto Great Earthquake and the Higashi Nippon Great Earthquake of last March. In the process of economic growth in the 1970's and '80's, a lot of pollution problems  arose, including air pollution, water pollution, etc. From these experiences, we have learned a lot of things, so now, we have got the wealth of knowledge.
  Now, in many developing countries, they are now suffering or will suffer in near future from troubles that we have already experienced. In many big cities in China, air pollution is terrible, as we often see on TV screen. Water pollution is also serious there. Not only pollution problems or the problem of disaster prevention, but in many other fields, Japan should help other countries by utilizing this knowledge of ours. In China and India, and in other developing countries, we see a great economical growth, so, by letting them use their money, we can encourage them improve the infrastructures and other social foundations.