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Image: The completed Yagami Campus and the slope in front

These nostalgic photos show the state of construction around the spring of 1971 and Yagami Campus at the time of its completion. For the Faculty of Engineering (now the Faculty of Science and Technology), which was located in Koganei at the time, returning to Yagami-dai was a long-held wish. Construction was delayed due to factors such as university disputes and the excavation of archaeological remains, so moving began in the summer of 1971 while construction was still ongoing in some areas. Yagami Campus officially opened in April 1973. Nearly half a century has passed since the relocation to Yagami, and fewer people now know of the Koganei Campus. The Koganei Campus was inherited from the site of a Yokogawa Electric factory; most of the buildings were old, and some school buildings and laboratories used the factory buildings as they were. We were truly troubled by drafts and dust. Therefore, the move to Yagami-dai was like a dream come true for those of us who were in Koganei.

Passing by the side of the Hiyoshi Commemorative Hall, Yagami Campus appears majestically on top of a small hill across the valley. The slope in front, continuing from Hiyoshi Campus, felt to us like a road of hope toward the future. Upon reaching the top of the slope, a plaza spread out, with a six-story research building in front, plum trees and a wisteria trellis to the right, and the Matsushita Memorial Library beyond them. To the left was a pond, with a large camphor tree beside it, and across the pond, with the classroom building at its back, stood a bust of Mr. Ginjiro Fujiwara, watching over us. Between classes, this plaza overflowed with students—some chatting, some sitting on the stone steps having lunch or talking, others absorbed in books under the wisteria trellis—it was a place for interaction between faculty, staff, and students. For me, this plaza was a place of relaxation and a source of vitality. When I hit a dead end in my research, it was a place where I would walk around slowly, reflecting while looking at Hiyoshi Campus across the valley or the sunset; it was a place to return to my roots. Now, the Sosokan stands in this plaza as the face of the Faculty of Science and Technology, and the large camphor tree that was next to the pond now welcomes people in front of the Sosokan as a symbol of Yagami-dai.

It is a bit of a shame that this plaza is gone, but instead, I fondly remember exchanging discussions with students over coffee on the veranda of La Poire, which was established in the Sosokan.