| Fuji Kawashima [message #8383] |
Thu, 09 March 2006 18:47 |
Yong-Ho Choe
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Registered: October 1998
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I am saddened to learn that Fuji Kawashima has passed away. Fuji and I became friends in 1967 when I did my research at Harvard-Yenching Library for my dissertation. Since then, we became good family friends sharing many mutual interests. In 1980, Fuji and I took a trip to Taiwan together for about a week, which subsequently became a very fond memory that we talked about whenever we met thereafter. He took a great pride in having been the first Japanese to have studied in Korea after the Second World War. While at Yonsei University, he fell in love with a girl who was reputedly the smartest and prettiest co-ed in the school; and when he married her, there was a minor uproar at the campus as many Yonsei male students felt their pride was undermined. Furji was a good scholar, a great gentleman, and a dear friend. I shall miss him very much.
Yong-ho Choe, Professor Emeritus
Department of History
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: 808 956-6762
Fax: 808 956-9600
E-mail: choeyh@hawaii.edu
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