Spending his childhood in the heart of Europe, he claims, have made a difference to his way of feeling towards music.

Whether flying little paper planes with a piece of string in an empty box of tissue,
in a classroom with chicks (literally) and ducks walking about should have anything to do with his music is doubtful.

Yet, as for piano lessons,
strict and mechanical, a reasonably typical method in Japan, was obviously not to his liking.
It is only after moving to England that he felt he had the freedom to "Make Music" the way he wanted.

Even the life style was different.
Tinkling on an old upright in a school classroom would have resulted in a terrible ordeal
equivelant to that of caning, in Japan.
Oo. Very strict.
Maybe it was the particular school that he attended in England,
but even apart from the cut out paper airplanes in tissue boxes,
well to put it simply,
it was different.
He was a little more free to do what he wanted.
Not that he behaved badly or anything.

Naturally, it has resulted in a lot of difficulties once he was back in Japan,
though at least the teaching staff at the Junior High School
he attended were very understanding.

His high school years were not particularly agreeable.
Four hours it took in all to travel to and from the school,
and he had very few friends then.
In any case, there were simply too many girls,
well perhaps there can never be too many, but very few agreeable boys.
And at the time, he was not one for mingling with the opposite gender.
What a shame.
Lost over three stones in the course of three years.

Soon he was to leave the university course he had started,
and move back to the United Kingdom...

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