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The Anpo Protests were a series of massive demonstrations that happened across Japan in 1960. People opposed the idea of a security treaty being established between the US and Japan due to public fear of the country getting involved in the war again. People including students and salary men (office workers) participated in this demonstration and this event went on to be considered as a major political crisis in post-war Japan and also led to a major student activism later on.

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The oil crisis, or oil shock, of 1973 impacted many countries across the world including Japan. Due to the country's heavy reliance on imported resources, the oil crisis staggered Japan's growing economy followed by massive price increase in products and recession within the country.

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Japan's economy was at its highest success in the 1980's and this phenomena was called the Bubble. Real estates grew and Japan's GDP rose at an annual rate of over 3%. This decade was considered as Japan's richest decade. However, this economic bubble suddenly popped in the 90's which led to a huge economic downfall of Japan and the country is still recovering from this impact.

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A couple years after they moved to the US, they returned back to Japan to raise their first born child, Nanae (Me!) and their second child. They moved to a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan and stayed there until they decided to move back to the US again for his work a couple years later.

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Toru married to his wife Yoko and soon after the marriage, they moved to Millbrae, California for his job. The couple stayed in Millbrae for a couple years, then moved to Cincinatti, Ohio due to Toru's job and stayed there until 2003. They also adopted their first dog named Vamo in Millbrae.

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During this year, Toru started to attend a college in Kobe, Japan and he went on to study Logistics. During this time, he also aspired to become a Sea Captain and was also studying sailing since this college had a program for sailing and marine related fields.

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After staying in Japan for 6 years, Toru decided to find a job in the US again and in 2010 April, the family moved to Walnut Creek, California. The family ended up staying in California for majority of the time and are still living there today.

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Today, Toru works for a medical company called Johnson & Johnson as a Logistics manager. His daughter is a student at San Francisco State University and his son is a high school student. The family still lives in Walnut Creek, California to this day.

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Toru was born in Mihara city, Hiroshima on August 7th, 1963 to his parents Etsuko, mother, and Iwao, father. He has two older siblings Yoshiko, oldest sister, and Hiroshi, older brother. His parents were both teachers and due to both of his parents working Toru was mostly raised by his older siblings who were 9 and 7 years older than him. He stayed in this city all of his childhood until he moved out for college.

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After 27 years of US's rule over Okinawa after World War II, on May 15th 1972 Okinawa and its islands were officially reverted back to Japan and became one of their prefectures. The Emperor of Japan and the Prime Minister of Japan commemorated this day and ceremonies were held in Tokyo with then US Vice-president Agnew and Lt. Gen. J. P. Lampert in attendance there as well.

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The Great Recession happened between 2007-2009 and was considered the longest recession period since World War II. The country's GDP had a huge decline and the unemployment rate rose up to 10%. This recession was caused due to the excessive mortage lending to people who weren't qualified for paying the loan.