“At the time, Mr. Emaya had started a mysterious social movement called “NAM” (New Associationist Movement). There was a mysterious community of people in social thought and philosophy, people in literature and music, and political activists, and I started hanging out there. They were going to produce a book called “NAM Generation” as a pamphlet for the movement, and Akira Asada, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Ken Suzuki, who would later found Smart News, were among the authors. As a junior high school student, I worked on the annotations for the book as a part-time job. I received 30,000 yen or 50,000 yen from the publisher, Ota Publishing, and that was the first job I ever got paid for when I was about 15 years old. Truant Children from Disappointing Families Go to Azabu and Tokyo University Narita, Assistant Professor at Yale University, U.S. - Nikkei
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