My friend Takako teaches a special class at a public elementary school in Yokohama. It's for kids who just moved back to Japan after living abroad. This year, nine of them came home from America. On the first day, she asked them one question. "Tell me about one American grown-up you will never forget." She expected Mickey Mouse. She got a crossing guard named Miss Pat. "Miss Pat high-fived every kid. Even the kids who were late. Especially the kids who were late." (Hiro, 8, Ohio) "A man at the hardware store let me push the big cart with the wood on it. It was the best day of my life. I was five." (Tsubasa, 9, Missouri) (Takako asked if anything better has happened since. He thought about it for a long time. He said no.) "My soccer coach was the slowest runner I have ever seen. He wore a cowboy hat to every game and yelled 'BIG HUSTLE, BUDDY!' at me a thousand times. I never scored one goal. He never stopped yelling." (Kaede, 9, Texas) "On my first day, the library lady gave me a library card with my name on it. I couldn't read English yet. I told her. She said, 'You will.'" (Yuna, 8, Minnesota) (Yuna now reads English better than Takako. Takako would like this to stop.) "An old man on our street sat on his porch every morning and saluted my scooter when I went by. I don't know why. So I saluted back. We did this for two years. We never talked one time." (Ryusei, 7, Georgia) "The dentist gave me a sticker for not crying. I cried. He gave me two stickers." (Kokoro, 6, Utah) (Takako has checked. This is not how stickers work.) "A police officer came to our school and let me sit in his car and turn on the lights. Then he let me turn on the siren. Then he said, 'Don't tell the chief.'" (Haru, 7, Iowa) (Haru has told everyone. Including, probably, the chief.) "At church, a grandma I didn't know held my hand during the prayer. Every Sunday. She never asked my name. She just always found me." (Mana, 9, Alabama) Then the boy in the back raised his hand. He hadn't said a word all morning. Takako thought he was too shy to answer. Yamato. Ten. Montana. "When I was seven, my mom got sick," he said. "She was in the hospital in the city for three months. My dad had to work. I didn't have anybody." His best friend's dad was a rancher named Mr. Doyle. "Every day after school, Mr. Doyle picked me up in his truck. He drove me forty minutes to see my mom. Every day." "He never came inside. He waited in the truck. I asked him why. He said, 'That's family time, son. I'll be right here.'" "And he was. Every day. Even when it snowed. Even when it was dark. When I came out, his truck was always right there, with the lights on." "He didn't talk much. He played country music. He let me hold the horse treats. He taught me to say thank you for the food before we ate. He said even ranch hands say grace." Takako asked if his mother got better. He smiled for the first time all morning. "Yes. She came home in March." "On the last day, Mr. Doyle shook my hand like I was a grown-up. He said, 'You were a good hand, son.'" Takako asked him what a good hand was. Yamato thought about it very carefully. "It's somebody who helps," he said. "Even when nobody asks them to." Takako told me she's been watching him since. Every day, after the last bell, when everyone else runs for the door, one ten-year-old boy stays behind. He stacks the chairs. He carries the janitor's bucket. He wipes the board. Nobody has ever asked him to. So, America. You think you're just grown-ups doing grown-up things. A crossing guard. A librarian. A man waiting in a truck in the snow with the lights on. You don't know which kid is watching you. Right now, in a classroom in Yokohama, a ten-year-old Japanese boy is stacking chairs nobody asked him to stack. That's Montana.

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From  political alliance  to a happy marriage. Pujie, Emperor Puyi's younger brother and heir to the puppet state of Manchukuo, and his Japanese wife Hiro Saga. They were arranged to marry but had an unexpected happy life and 2 daughters in later years.

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It was a pleasure to co-host the conference on “Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Developing Economies for Navigating Fragmentation Risks” with Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Singapore. AMRO Deputy Director Rahman Abdurohman delivered the opening remarks, followed by a keynote speech by AMRO Chief Economist Dong He and a joint keynote address by distinguished professors Joshua Aizenman, Jamel Saadaoui, and Hiro Ito. The conference featured 12 research paper presentations and lively exchanges on fiscal and monetary policies amid rising global fragmentation while safeguarding macroeconomic stability and fostering resilient growth. Our sincere thanks to all participants for the insightful discussions.