Jens T. Hoeg : Congratulatory message
Past President, The Crustacean Society (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
On occasion of the 60th Anniversary Symposium, Carcinological Society of Japan, it is an honour and a privilege to send my best wishes to you all for a very successful meeting. I have now visited Japan more than 15 times.
I have attended CSJ meetings in Tokyo and other meetings elsewhere, including on Okinawa, the "Island of Flowers" that all Japanese love to visit. Some of my most important research partners are also Japanese, and I have worked both in Tokyo, at Akita Prefectural University, at Seto Marine Station and not least at Nara Josei Daigaku.Most honored President, fellow members of the CSJ. I therefore now feel that Japan is almost my 2nd home country, and everytime I arrive it feels not like being abroad, but truly like "coming back home".
I hope soon to come back again and enjoy Japanese food, culture, onsen and not least "benri-na omote-nashi".
Okage sama de
Iensu Hoigu
Kotoshi wa CSJ no ju-roku-nen no kinenbi no kaigi desu.
Sono taisetsu na toki ni saishite, taihen seiko shita kaigi ni tsuite, minna-san ni yoroshiku.
Kono dengon o okuru-koto wa kouei to sasete idagaku de aru. Ima watashi wa Nihon e ju-go-kai yori oku ita-koto ga arimasu.
Mo Tokyo de CSJ no kaigi to yoso ni hoka no kaigi ga shusseki shimashita, mo Okinawa e, minna no nihon-jin ga homon-shitai "Hana no shima", yoku ikimashita.
Watashi no ichi-ban no daiji na kenkyu nakama wa nihon-jin desu to, Tokyo to Akita to Seto to toku ni Nara Josei Daigaku de hatarakimashita.
Meiyo ni atai suru kaichi ni, minna no CSJ no kain ni, sono riyu na no de, ima marude Nihon wa futatsu no kuni no yo da to omotte imasu to, itsu demo Nihon e tochaku-shita toki ni, kaigai wa nai ga, hotondo kaeru-koto no yo da desu.
Mamonaku nihonsei tabemono, nihonsei bunmei, onsen to mappitsunagara benri na omote-nashi o tanoshimi ni kaeru to nozonde imasu.
Okage sama de
Iensu Hoigu