Satoshi was never serious about studying English in secondary school days. He does not remember what he learned in English classes. The only things he can recollect are that he sang a lot of English songs in junior high school, and he had a conversation class with a native speaker once a week in senior high school, both of which he didn’t become interested in. He was a member of the baseball club, and just like the baseball club members all over Japan, he was too busy playing baseball to study. Satoshi says, “I didn’t understand anything in the English class,” so he used the “overnight cramming” strategy before the exam and forgot everything the day after the exam. Yet, he stresses that he “admired foreign countries a lot.”