Old photograph found in my parental home. Held in my father’s arms in the garden.

　Next Sunday, June 20, is Father’s Day. We normally do nothing special in such celebration days, yet as I have lost my mother very early and spent my childhood One-father・One-child ( + my grandmother was my surrogate mother), whenever Father’s Day approach, I fragmentally recollect my early childhood days.

　This time, I would like to show you a photo, which was found in my parental home. I myself did not know the existence of this photo till early this year, and I felt refreshing in seeing it for the first time. The date of the photo was Jan.02, 1984, and I was 7 months old, and a photo of father and child just before my father found BIOTEC. Of course I do not remember taking this photo, but I feel nostalgic to the scene of the garden. The house in the photo no longer exists. I sense the transition of the times.

　At that time, he started the enterprise with the resolution that if he failed, he would die taking myself with him. Considering that my father and I are still alive today owing to everyone who supported Kinshoku Enterprise, I feel relieved once again and the sense of gratitude is overflowing in my heart.