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　　作者简介:松冈礼,日本籍,佳能(中国)南京分公司原总经理。1985年第一次来南京,2003年起在宁工作生活十余年。

　　今年的六一节,我再次来到了南京,来到了位于后宰门的市儿童福利院,给孩子们带去我的慰问。正值梅雨期间,南京的街巷中充满了浓郁的栀子花香。在淅淅沥沥的小雨中,我不禁回忆起自己与这座城市30年的缘分。

　　我第一次来到南京是在1985年,当时我受佳能公司广州办事处的委托,来到南京新街口百货商店,参加了技术交流研讨会。对南京的第一印象,就是高大茂盛的梧桐树和稳重大方的市民,这一切与富有历史韵味的街景交相辉映,显得那么协调,那一瞬间,我仿佛看到了古都奈良的影子。

与南京福利院的孩子们在一起

　　在这之后,我回到日本工作了十几年。2003年,我有幸第二次来到心仪的南京,担任佳能南京分公司的总经理。之后的几年,我在南京度过了一段非常美好的时光。

　　中山陵和夫子庙,是我在南京时最喜爱的地方。又因为孙中山先生与日本有着很深的渊源,每当我站在中山陵前时,心中都会产生很深的感慨。

　　我40多岁时才有了一对双胞胎儿女,正好那时他们还没上学,到南京来玩。我妻子按照日本人的惯性思维,想带他们到当地的图书馆找一些儿童绘本来读。当时的南京图书馆还在成贤街上的一个小院子里,只有供成人借阅的书籍,没有儿童阅览室,但是管理员告诉我们说,正在建设的新馆里以后会有的。经与妻子商量,因为十分喜欢南京这座城市,我们决定为儿童阅览室的建设贡献一份微博的力量,于是我们通过市外办,向南图捐赠了3万元人民币。我还记得当时是张斌副主任陪我去的,许副馆长为我颁发了捐赠证书,并称我是“中日人民友好的使者”。后来高大气派的南京图书馆新馆建成开放了,里面也真的有了一间宽敞明亮的儿童阅览室,我看到了之后感到欣慰不已。

　　2003年来南京赴任之后,我有缘认识了时任伊藤忠南京分公司总经理的八木宏之先生。那之后的10年时间里,我们结下了深厚的友谊,在我对于南京的回忆中,他占了非常重要的位置。八木先生在上世纪80年代初就曾经被企业派遣到南京大学留学过两年,所以他能说一口流利的中文,在南京有很多朋友,对南京的方方面面也非常了解,毕业后又在南京度过了多年企业生涯,从心底里对南京抱有很深的感情。因为他多年努力为省市的外向型经济牵线搭桥,后来还被江苏省政府授予了“江苏友谊奖”。有一年江苏省电视台举办“同乐江苏外国人才艺大赛”,他上台用中文演唱了一首《我的中国心》,获得了一等奖。

　　当时,我们很多日本企业联合在一起,每年为金陵图书馆捐赠日文书籍,六一时为市儿童福利院捐款。后来,八木先生说,作为一个已在南京生活多年的外籍市民,他还想单独表达一份自己的心意。于是,在外办和友协的帮助下,八木先生每年六一儿童节时,再以个人名义为儿童福利院捐款一万元人民币。这之后的十年,无论八木先生是调到北京还是调回日本工作,都从未间断过。他的行为深深地影响了我,我也做出了和他一样的决定。那些年,我们经常去儿童福利院看望孩子们,他们天真可爱的笑脸和管理人员的尽心尽责给我们留下了无比深刻的印象。

　　天有不测风云。万万没想到的是,也许是因为一个人在海外漂泊多年,劳累过度,2011年八木先生发现身体状况不佳,回到了日本。2012年,在最后一次回到南京参加了南大110周年校庆之后没多久,他就因病去世了。即使在他回日本治病的最后一年,为了在南京和东京间架起友好桥梁,他还召集我们这些曾经在南京常驻过的人成立了“南京东京之会”,不定期地举行各种活动,协助南京有关部门开展招商工作,追忆在南京度过的美好岁月。像他这样一位精力充沛、人脉极广、人缘极佳的中国通,在50出头就匆匆离开了人世,我至今都觉得非常遗憾和难过。为了继承我最好朋友---八木先生的遗志,这四年,每年六一我都坚持到南京来,到福利院来。一到这儿,我就会产生一种错觉,好像八木先生还没有离开我们,他还坐在那里,对我微笑着招手说:“哦,松冈,你也来啦!”

　　离我1985年第一次访华,至今已走过30余年的岁月,南京在中国经济急速发展的背景下,也发生了日新月异的变化,奥体新城、仙林大学城、江宁开发区、江北新区......这些地方的发展令我这个“老南京人”都惊奇地睁大了眼睛。2014年我退休后受聘于一家铸造企业,听说目前全世界每年大约有1亿吨的铸铁生产总量,但和10年前不同的是,中国在其中所占的比例,已经超过了50%,领先于大多数发达国家,我也由此深刻地感受到了中国的崛起。这家企业很快也要派我去管理中国的工厂,不过这次是在离南京不远的无锡。我即将开始人生中第三次在中国的常驻生活,在接下来的日子里,我会按照八木先生的遗愿,与中国的新老朋友们友好相处。

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All about Me and Nanjing

Matsuoka Rei (Japan)

On Children’s Day this year, I came to Nanjing once again. I went to the Nanjing Children Welfare Home in Houzaimen to visit children there. It was in the rainy season of Nanjing. Gardenias were blooming down the streets. The sweet scent of the flowers, along with the lingering drizzle, reminded me of my 30-year experiences with this city.

I first visited Nanjing in 1985. At the time, I was entrusted by the Guangzhou office of Canon Inc. to Nanjing Xinjiekou Department Store to attend a seminar on technological exchange. The first thing that impressed me most was that the tall, lush London Plane trees and the modest, generous local residents were perfectly merged with the quaint streets of historical charm. At that moment, I recalled Nara, the ancient capital of Japan.

After that, I returned to work in Japan for over ten years. Luckily, I got another chance in 2003 to my long-expected Nanjing and became the general manager of the Canon Nanjing Branch. I had a great time here in the years that followed.

The Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum and the Confucius Temple are my favorite places in Nanjing. It is also because Dr. Sun was closely associated with Japan, whenever I stood in front of the mausoleum, I always felt like I had a lot to say.

I hadmy boy and girl twins when I was in my 40s. As they were too young for school at the time, I took them to stay with me in Nanjing for some time. One day, my wife went to the local library to find some picture books for my kids, just as what she usually did before in Japan. The library was in a small courtyard on Chengxian Street back then. It had only books for adults and no reading room for children. The librarian told us that they were building a new library and there would be a reading room for kids. I talked with my wife who also loved Nanjing very much and we decided to do something for this. With the help of the Foreign Affairs Office of Nanjing Municipal People's Government, we donated 30,000 yuan to the in-progress Nanjing Library. Vice Director-General Zhang Bin accompanied us to the donation. Mr. Xu, deputy director of Nanjing Library awarded me a certificate for donation, and named me "a messenger of friendship between the Chinese and Japanese people." When the grand and elegant building of Nanjing Library was open to the public, I saw a large and well-lit reading room specifically for children, and I felt very delighted and deeply touched.

After I came to Nanjing in 2003, I became acquainted with Mr. Hiroyuki Yagi, then general manager of the ITOCHU Nanjing Branch. In the ten years that followed, we became very good friends. Mr. Hiroyuki meant a lot to me during my stay in Nanjing. Mr. Hiroyuki was sponsored by the company to study in Nanjing University for two years in the early 1980s. He spoke good Chinese and had many friends in Nanjing. After graduation, he worked here for years. He knew Nanjing very well and was deeply attached to the city. To honor his many years of efforts in promoting the export-oriented economy of cities in the province, he was awarded a "Jiangsu Certificate of Friendship" by the Jiangsu Provincial Government. In a "Shared Joy in Jiangsu: Foreigner Singing and Talent Competition" organized by Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation, he sang the famous song "My Love for China" in Chinese and won the first prize.

Back then, many Japanese companies in Nanjing, together, donated Japanese books to Jinling Library every year and money to the Nanjing Children Welfare Home on every Children’s Day. Besides, Mr. Hiroyuki wanted to do something else to express his individual regards as a foreigner living in Nanjing for years. With the help of the Foreign Affairs Office of Nanjing Municipal People’s Government and the Nanjing Friendship Association with Foreign Countries, Mr. Hiroyuki made a personal donation of 10,000 yuan for the Nanjing Children Welfare Home every Children's Day. In the decade since then, no matter where Mr. Hiroyuki worked, in Beijing or back to Japan, he never stopped this good deed. His kindness greatly affected me and encouraged me to make the same decision as he did. In those years, we went to the Children Welfare Home quite often to visit the children. The adorable kids and responsible staff there impressed us a lot.

Unexpectedly, perhaps because he was too dedicated to work and lived overseas alone for so many years, Mr. Hiroyuki found himself in poor health and returned to Japan in 2011. In the next year, not long after he came back for the 110th anniversary of Nanjing University, he died of illness. Even in his last year in Japan for medical treatment, Mr. Hiroyuki did not stop working on friendship between Nanjing and Tokyo. He gathered those who had stayed in Nanjing to set up an association for Nanjing-Tokyo friendship, where we hosted events, assisted the government departments of Nanjing in attracting investments, and shared our wonderful experiences in Nanjing. Even now, I still feel very sorry and sad that Mr. Hiroyuki, a vigorous, well-connected, and easy-going China Hand, passed away in his early 50s. To carry on the unfilled will and work of my best friend, I have come to Nanjing and visited the Children Welfare Home every June 1 for the past four years. Once I got here, I felt as if Mr. Hiroyuki was still with me, sitting there, waving and smiling at me, "Oh, here you are, Matsuoka!"

It has been 30 plus years since my first visit to China in 1985. With the sharp economic growth in China, Nanjing has also witnessed rapid changes. Besides the emerging Olympic New Town, the Xianlin University City, the Jiangning Economic and Technological Development Zone, and the Jiangbei New Area, there are still many more in progress. All these have given this historic city a new look, and amazed even local people, including me. After retirement in 2014, I was employed by a foundry company. It is said that about 100 million tons of cast iron is produced each year globally. China contributes to over 50% of the total output, ahead of most developed countries, which we could not even think possible ten years ago. I see this as an obvious sign of a rising China. The company will soon send me to manage its factory in China. This time I will go to Wuxi, not far from Nanjing. I am about to start my third journey in China. I look forward to meeting new and old friends there, and will carry forward Mr. Hiroyuki’s wish to promote friendship between two countries.