The days after his marriage was finalized flew by for Yuta. Yuta's meetings with Kawabata-kyoju he found both interesting and profitable. His friend had the ear of the Ministry of Education, so together they could contribute their ideas for the national curriculum where it counted.

The only difficulty he foresaw was where they were going to put the unified national school in the mountain hamlet where he lived. He had room for it in his current building, but that was private ...