In 1999 (49 years old), at the former building of Akasaka Prince Hotel.

　Today, in “Shigyo Sosyu Photo Gallery” new photos and episodes are exhibited all at once. Voluminous and worth seeing events from the time when our first factory was opened and Sosyu was 36 years old, up to the most recent activities.
　These additional photos of Sosyu after 36 years old are precisely what I myself have seen with my own eyes from my childhood to the present time, and I was filled with profound nostalgia. “Father,” whom I was encountering from my childhood to adolescence, was exactly as in the photos of those days, looked dignified as a British gentleman stylishly dressed in dashing suit, and rode British classic car to the company. Just approaching closer, he emitted tense electric-shock atmosphere, and when he came home and emerged from the shadows of night, he looked just like Count Dracula, and I being a child was frightened to death.

　Such figure of “Father” could not be seen in other homes, and I sensed Shigyo Sosyu to be a special existence in my child heart. Even today, I am truly grateful to be born to such Father. I sincerely hope you will view his figure in “Shigyo Sosyu Photo Gallery.”