Swami Vivekananda's love for Japan is well-known. He had said, “I would wish that everyone of our young men could visit Japan once at least in his lifetime to see how Japanese talk and work more unlike Indians.” To this ilk belongs Dr. Hiroya Fujisaki Professor-Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and a Professor in the Department of Applied Electronics at the Science University of Tokyo. He was on a visit to All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) in Mysuru recently to deliver a series of lectures.
Star of Mysore Features Editor N. Niranjan Nikam met the genial, soft spoken, Dr. Fujisaki, 87, at Hotel Metropole, where he spoke candidly for nearly an hour about how he had come to AIISH for the first time to learn, his understanding about speech science, his work on information retrieval system which was picked up by Google, on traffic flow and his views about Americans and their morality. — Editor
