Image copyright The Hattori family Image caption A friend took this photo of Yoshihiro Hattori in San FranciscoIn October 1992, Yoshihiro Hattori knocked on the wrong door.
'He was life'Yoshi was "crazy about rugby", said his parents, Masa and Mieko Hattori, in an email interview.
"I can make Japanese cooking like tempura cutlet for host families and introduce the living way of Japanese."
Image copyright The Hattori family Image caption A family photo of Hattori fishing in 1989In the summer of 1992, Yoshi took off for a year in the US.
And the couple recently gave a $500,000 endowment to Dick's university, Carleton College, to create the Yoshihiro Hattori Memorial Fund.