A Recall of Experience: Becoming to Has Been a Scholar in Japan by Omar G. Lamina Hiroshima University Teacher Training Program (2014-2016) Teacher III, Casimiro A. Ynares Sr. Memorial National High School Taytay, Rizal On July 23, 1956 or eleven years after the World War II ended, the Japanese embassy in Manila was formally established and that also signaled the formal normalization of the diplomatic ties between Japan and the Philippines that has become cold due to the events that took place a decade before its establishment. Sixty-three years after, the relationships between the two countries is progressive and continue to prosper by engaging into many bilateral cooperation that spans into different areas like trade and commerce, tourism, infrastructure projects, education and job opportunities that serves as an engine that continuously secures stronger links between each other. At present Japan is also home to hundred of thousand Filipinos who are in search of a better career and life opportunities. I have always been associated with the Japanese culture and tradition ever since I was child. A wonderful childhood came to me while growing up in the early 90’s because of watching Japan made anime’s, dramas and sentai’s that was beautifully dubbed either in Filipino or in English during the weekends. There was no best way for a child during my time to spend the weekends as a break from a five day long laborious school chores other than watching those shows in one house together with other children from our neighborhood. It relieved a lot of stress and ignited my imagination as a child and made me believe that Japan is a place where heroes with super powers exist. However, one thing has always baffled me before and after the show: what did the theme song of the