---Where were you born?
A place called Atsu in Kojima.
---What do you do for a living?
I run an apparel processing company in Tamashima called "Seiwa."
---What kind of processing do you mean?
Mainly denim products. Creasing, fading, wrinkling using high pressure pressing machines, and so on.
---How long have you worked in the textile industry?
My mother hired seven or eight seamstresses to sew student uniforms and I ran errands there since I was ten years old. I've changed my job several times but it was always within the textile industry. It's been half a century now.
---Tell us about your family.
My wife and my son who began junior high school.
---How do you spend your day off?
I hang around at home. Either that or I take my family to super market. I also began gardening recently. Nothing big. I just like to poke around here and there.
---What are you into right now?
Before sixty, if I went to movies it was usually an American movie. Either that, or Japanese movies like Tora-san and "Tsuribaka Nisshi (Fishing Fool's Dairy)." Now I often watch Japanese period drama movies like "Onihei Hankacho." I wonder why.
---You look younger than your age. Is there a secret?
I have no idea. Maybe because I dye my hair or because I'm not that clever.
---Then, what's the secret of a successful business?
To work out a plan based on simulations of failure. That may be inefficient, but it eliminates failure.