Reports:

Today was a special day. Indeed it was Ayumi”s birthday. I met Ayumi around the year 1998-1999 when I was in South of France. We met in the city of Antibes where I lived near the beach there, at the time. Soon after we met, my daughter Athena was conceived and we decided to return to Japan when she turned 1 year old. 

Since the conception of the Marine Foundation, at the birth of our son Zeus, some 16 years ago, Ayumi has shown constant support and great endurance. I remember that at the time I gave up everything to try imagining something like the Marine Foundation, which name at the time we did not even know. It was a long process of going from one stage to another and trying to cope with the expensive Japanese lifestyle of raising children in Tokyo. I would say that with comparing with the life of most businessmen around me, ours was pretty uncommon to fulfill. When you have a monthly salary, it is easier to plan ahead I suppose. But in my case I have to go month by month, not knowing for sure what would happen if something went wrong. However, nothing went wrong and we caught our way out of building the most amazing project which transpires the Marine Foundation today.

Therefore, I would say how grateful I am to Ayumi who has always swell managed to stake care of the children despite the crazy pioneer that I was at the inception of the organization on March 11, 2013. It has been times when we wanted to go on vacation just like everybody else and going to France and meet my mother was always on my mind. Today in 2019, things have changed of course and great fortune is smiling at our door.  Nevertheless remembering the hardship brings nostalgia to the heart and sometimes I would feel that I would not mind to start it all over again. In fact, today is not yet Ayumi’s birthday but it was celebrated today due to the invitation to her best friend Kiko. So it was a fantastic day of remembrance and a new start for our little family.