So, I moved to the Japanese space agency which was then only two years sice it's creation. I worked there for thirty years and retired by age in September 2001. The longest affiliation at the agency was with the satellite projects, especially with the meteorological satellites.

On the day of retirement, I bought a Linux box and began working on the Global Computing System, the idea of which had been lingering in my mind for about a year. I was a newbie in the UNIX/Linux environment and it took some time before I got settled to it. After the reirement I was newly employed by an another organization which has nothig to do with aerospace nor computer. So I am working on my GCS in the weekends. I did not have the experience to write an interpreter. However I could manage to make a working system which could be dubbed as the phase-1 model by mid-February 2002.

I bought the second linux box on my sixtieth birthday in February and applied for ADSL connection to the telephone company. It took me a whole month's struggle before bringing the server to work.

I am married and have a son and a daughter. I have been living in the central part of Japan all the time except for the three years in my mid-thirties, when our family lived in Washington,DC.