{"id":34336,"date":"2016-04-14T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/rencontre-avec-polina\/"},"modified":"2020-07-12T18:15:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:15:21","slug":"in-company-of-polina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/en\/in-company-of-polina\/","title":{"rendered":"In company of Polina"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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During my penultimate week at TYK, I worked in the Alpha team which works at the \u00d4bata factory and not at the R&D center. So, for lunch, I ate in the factory refectory (bigger and with more choice). This is where I met Polina, a 29 year old Russian girl from Krasnoyarsk in Siberia! She has been in charge of sales for the TYK international department since 2011. Polina studied linguistics at the Federal University of Siberia. Japanese and English for five years. At the age of 21 she came to discover Japan in homestay and finally a year later continued her studies at the University of Nagoya for two years. It was during this time that she met her future husband, Kentaro. Polina now lives with her husband and son in Kachigawa, a town twenty minutes by train from Tajimi. The city’s mascots are three somewhat strange species of cactus.<\/p>

Polina’s son Mihei is a cute little three-year-old, a mix of his Russian mom and his Japanese dad. During one of my last weekend, I came to spend an evening and night at Polina’s in Kachigawa. She showed me the center of the city, a small shopping street with a peaceful atmosphere. In a very small alley parallel to the shopping street is a gigantic statue of K\u00f4b\u00f4 Daichi (nicknamed K\u00fbkai)! He is the founder of the Shingon Buddhist school which I told you about during my excursions to Shikoku Island<\/strong><\/a> last November. Finding a statue of him this size in Kachigawa is a little curious, the city having a priori nothing special, but the influence of K\u00fbkai in Japan is so important that it only surprises me halfway.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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