My main reason for this article in the SAP community space is to re-introduce Hideki. I worked with him when he lived in the United States and he has been home in Japan for years.
A link to a 2008 post on the SAP Community when Unicode was a hot topic:
https://blogs.sap.com/2008/09/30/on-the-road-to-berlin-part-3/
He and Koh Doi from the Japanese SAP User Group community flew here for the several day post-Tech Ed networking. We had a great time recollecting previous meetups ("which aquarium was that?")
