Toyoki Kozai is surprised to find himself president of Chiba University. He would rather have been a farmer, he insists, growing things.
When it is pointed out gently that he is growing things -- young people's hearts and minds -- he looks surprised. He hadn't thought of it that way, he says.
It had not been difficult to spot Kozai picking his way through unrelated crowds of graduating students spilling out of a hotel lobby onto the street in central Tokyo. For one thing he is four decades older, with a handsome head of silver hair; also, his attire is far more refined: a smart dark suit and simple striped tie.