In Japan, though Samurai has a strict and simple life, there is only one thing for them to pay much money. It is a sword or Katana. Katana is the soul for Samurai. Similarly, books are the soul for intellectual persons. So Mr. Watanabe thi…

In fact, there is a very good example. Though Mr. Watanabe is 80 years old now, he writes almost one book a month. (And I certainly buy all of them.) It is a sophisticated hobby to have a private library. In Europe there are many noblemen …

Studying and working at a university, he found there were two types of professors. Some of them write many books also after retirement, others don’t write any books. The difference might come from the situations whether they have books at …

I have been eager to see the private library of Professor Watanabe Shouichi, who is one of the most intellectual persons in Japan. The other day I saw the pictures of his library. It has 150,000 books. ＊ When he was a university student, …