He realized there the first modern (i.e. BIS central bankers’ speeches  5  horizontal) Japanese banknotes (slide 9). He maintained this position until his retirement and lived the rest of his life in Japan, never setting foot in Italy again.
This story symbolizes, to my view, some comparative advantages of our two countries and the potential of cooperation between us: artistic inventiveness combined with openness to new technologies, adventurous spirit, individualistic curiosity on the Italian part; superior capacity in organizing productive factors, long-term vision, social cohesion addressed towards collective endeavors on the Japanese part.