The New Year's Card That Never Reached You

"The New Year's Card That Never Reached You"

Every year, I wrote a New Year's card.

One winter, it came back with a mourning notice.

After walking through the uncertainty of
Japan's "Employment Ice Age" generation,
there was one thing I longed to say.

"Professor... I started my own business."

I never had the chance.

Yet the greatest lesson my mentor left me was never about research.

It was the courage to keep asking questions and to believe in people.

This song is a quiet letter of gratitude to a teacher
who still lives on in my heart.