After receiving your wonderful “Thanks Message on Retiring as Chairperson of Asian Network for Quality (ANQ)”, we all here at Nepal are encouraged more for working towards this value of quality useful for all humankinds. I remember the whole day I have spent with you to buy one picture of Mt. Everest in art galleries of Kathmandu, when you finally decided to buy the landscape painted by the famous Nepalese painter Lain Singh Bangdel. I personally like to mention here that I learned and applied TQM philosophy from Prof. Hitoshi Kume and you, Prof. Noriaki Kano, whom I think the world remembers as the left and right hands of Prof. Ishikawa. I could not get chance to get direct in touch with Prof. Ishikawa, but he is always in my heart and soul. Sensei, you are my mentor, specially when I am starting to do research with your methodology on human traits and personality. I like to do scientific enquiry on the human traits using your methods.

I hope the Network for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness Nepal (NQPCN) will get the opportunity to join the Asian Network for Quality with your support and encouragement. We came to know you have retired from the position of chairman but you can not retire from the job of adding values in human life through quality. With your advises and initiation many people has to learn and the Asian society has to benefit. Thank you once again, sensei.

Your thoughtful message narrates the history of AQS and ANQ and also suggests the way forward. Formation of ANQ under your dynamic leadership is an important milestone in the journey of quality movement in Asia. It could only be done with your
dedicated effort spread over 25 years of building relationships and encouraging people in different parts of Asia.

Your mention of Prof. Ishikawa is so touching and reminds me of my first meeting with Prof. Ishikawa who was so knowledgeable and yet so humble that he became a role model and an inspiration to so many. I am sure Prof. Ishikawa would be so proud of your achievement. Your enthusiasm, energy and guidance would still be needed to nurture and grow ANQ to its rightful place.

On behalf of ISQ and on my own behalf I thank you for your leadership in the formative years of ANQ. We look forward to your continued guidance and support at ANQ.

Like all of the ANQ members, on behalf of the SQAT, I would like to thank you for your kind advice and support you have provided for ANQ and for SQAT throughout your chairmanship period. Your achievement has been
highly recognized as one of the pinnacles for mankind. You may step down as ANQ Chairman but you'll still be our role model to improve the Quality of us, Asian people, by Asian way.

We wish you and Madame KANO all the best with good health for many years to come. We'll surely disturb your retired period from time to time and we're quite certain that you'll always miss all of us. Sincerely and respectfully yours,

It is a very stirring letter, and one befitting the tremendous contribution you have personally made to the advancement of the Quality Movement in Asia. You have definitely taken great effort to craft this letter, which in itself is a short history of AQS and ANQ. This piece of work would come in handy as a guiding document for succeeding generations of leadership.

We first met in the third quarter last year, but as your reputation had preceded you, I seemed to have the impression that I have known you for a long while. Even as you step down from one position, I have no doubt that you would continue to contribute your expertise and experience to the advancement of Quality in Asia; putting this growing region of the world shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of ASQ and EOQ. We look forward to your continued goodwill and guidance.

On behalf of the Executive Council, Management, Staff and Members of the Singapore Quality Institute, let me say a big thank you to a Giant in the Quality Profession.