According to the story of missing persons reported by this report, the Japanese Yumita Munetaka (left) got in touch with the Taiwanese formerly named Guo Zonghong and now the Japanese Helai Munehiro. "Reminiscing about the past.

(Photographed by reporter Huang Mingtang)

[Reporter Huang Mingtang/Taitung Report] 60-year-old Japanese man Munetaka Yumeda came to Taiwan to look for his Taiwanese elementary school classmate "Guo Zonghong" who was in Tokyo 48 years ago. According to reports from this newspaper, the two have made contact and returned yesterday. Elementary school reminisces.

This Taiwanese boy became a doctor and worked as the director of gastroenterology in a hospital in Tokyo.

Yumita Sotaka works as a script agent for a TV station in Japan. His wife Mitsuko Sakai is a documentary director and has been to Taiwan many times to shoot documentaries.

Yumita has been to Taiwan 4 times, always thinking of "Guo Zonghong", a Taiwanese elementary school classmate 48 years ago.

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When Yumida Munetaka was a child at Omuga Elementary School in Shibuya District, Tokyo, he and Taiwanese "Guo Zonghong" were "Machi" who made trouble together, and they also went to each other's homes to play, and lost contact after graduation. After returning to Taiwan, we searched for it through the help of Chen Weichen, a friend in Taitung, Taiwan. This matter was reported by our newspaper at the end of March, and the two lost contacts were immediately brought back online.

It turns out that Guo Zonghong is not in Taiwan, but has been living in Japan and has acquired Japanese nationality. His name is "He Lai Zonghong".

His relatives and friends in Taiwan saw the report in this newspaper and forwarded the message to him in Japan. He Lai Zonghong immediately found the old number of Yumita, but he couldn’t get through. He asked his son to find Mitsuko Sakai’s Instagram and send a message, and he immediately got a reply. 48 years old On the 3rd day after the report, the former elementary school classmates exchanged phone calls and agreed to meet yesterday.

Yumita Munetaka said that yesterday they met at a hotel near the Oto Elementary School where they were children, and hit it off right away, as if they hadn't seen each other in 48 years, chatting about all kinds of interesting things in the past.

They went to Daxiang Elementary School where the two met, but the school merged with three elementary schools in 1997 and changed its name to Shennan Elementary School. However, the school building remained as it was then, and the ground was changed from gravel to artificial turf. The two talked nostalgically Memories of playing baseball together.

They went to the place where the Yuda family used to be. The former residential area is now a place full of commercial buildings. The traces of that era no longer exist. However, Ka Lai Zonghong recalled that when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school, he went to Yuda’s house almost every day. Playing with models in the room, or playing ball in the street, I loved Yumeda's mother as much as I loved my own mother.

More than 20 years ago, when he was just married, he took his wife around Shibuya, trying to find the place where Yumita's family used to be, but the town was completely different from before, and he couldn't find it.

Yumida Zongtaka once described that Guo Zonghong's father is a doctor and his family is also a clinic, but he does not know what he is doing now.

This Taiwanese child obtained a doctorate in medicine from Keio University in Japan, and is currently practicing in a hospital in Tokyo, specializing in digestive tract diseases.

Yumita felt that Guo Zonghong was destined to become a doctor. Yesterday he heard that he had six brothers, five of whom were doctors.

A headshot of a Taiwanese child named "Guo Zonghong" in the yearbook of Omuga Elementary School in Tokyo, Japan.

(Photographed by reporter Huang Mingtang)