They say we live to the age of 100 years.

However, even if our life expectancy increases and we can live longer and healthier, it is meaningless if we do not live well.

I am eighty-nine years old. At this age, an older man would have just waited to die in the past. Even now, when life expectancy has increased, the public image of the elderly is that they have rounded the fourth corner and are running towards the finish line on the last straight course. The other day, I went through returning my driver's license.



However, I have a lot of things I want to do and must do, and as chairman of the board, I have a responsibility to see to the revival of the company my father founded. In addition, I believe that telling the history of Japan's space rocket technology development is a job that only I can do. I also must leave for posterity the activities related to the ""Right to Be Let Quiet,"" in which I, as an unknown housewife, stood up to the national government and huge organizations and left my mark.

This book is a compact summary of my life. I would like to tell the story of those who lived through the turbulent times of the Showa era by looking forward to the future.



［Author Biography］

Teruko Miyakawa



Born in Tokyo in February 1933

Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi High School in 1951

Graduated from Japan Women's University in 1955

Married Yukio Miyagawa in the same year

Environmental protection activities since 1976 under the banner of ""Right to Be Let Quiet.""

Established the Research Center of Environment and Pollution in 1983.



Main Publications

Right to Be Let Quiet   Nippon Hyoron Sha

Glow! Twenty-first Century   Obunsha; Research Center of Environment and Pollution

Quietness is a Barometer of Culture   Bungeisha

Sho-Chiku-Bai   Bungeisha

Japanese Rocket: The Trail of Truth   Renaissance Eye

Japanese Rocket - Stay beautiful and healthy!   Renaissance Eye