Instructor Profile: Nagoya Matsudaira

My Bio

Instructor Name: Nagoya Matsudaira
Birthday: July 30th, 1945
Blood Type: AB
Age: 61
Height: 5’7” (I’m getting shorter in my old age)
Build: Average (and fatter too)
Likes: Suspense thriller books, theology, has a penchant for sailing, and loves Logic Problems & Sudoku
Dislikes: Lots of things, but gets especially annoyed when someone uses extreme amounts of slang in their speech. (Not to mention blinder, balder, and grumpier)
Personality: Nagoya’s a very traditional Japanese teacher, who doesn’t hesitate to use all the old tricks to get students to learn. He believes firmly in tough love, and holds students in high regard to the fact that there’s hope for everyone if they’re willing to apply themselves. Another thing: Any emo-wanking in class or otherwise will be soundly beaten out of you until you’ve cried every last tear out of your ducts. He holds teachers with a great responsibility to be the epitome of academic perfection. Usually the ideas never match to the realities, causing him to be fairly grouchy around them once he’s gotten to know them more.

Nagoya doesn’t like living in common-class environments, but he has never forgotten his roots from back when he was a boy. He’ll work equally as hard to educate commoner or rich kid alike since it’s never WHO you are, but what you DO that ultimately “makes the man” in this world.

My Background

Classification: Instructor
School: Ouran High School
Grade: All years
Class: G
Subject: Math & Economics
Club Sponsor: Only if it’s academia-based. None yet.
Other Information: His name descends from the Tokugawa family of the 1500’s that often controlled the Emperor of the time even thought they were not Imperials. His ancestors were one of the lines that were not permitted to take on the Tokugawa name that later became daimyos.

Being born in post-World War II changed a lot of how Japan’s society worked. Most Imperials had been reduced to commoner status while those of longer lineage were also forgotten. Instead of whining about it, his family got involved in the rebuilding of their devastated country. Nagoya went to school and served briefly in the now-shattered military in order to learn more about the social-economical state of Japan’s stature. Meanwhile, his family began constructing new foundations of bringing energy along with industrial and modern technology to even the poorest of houses. It was a time of rebuilding and Nagoya eventually assisted, then took over the family’s new status by the time he reached his early 30’s. The inheritance was rushed due to the fact that his father had grown ill and the heir needed to know the ropes before he passed.

Over time, the Yama power company performed a merger with Nagoya as one of the prime board of directors overseeing modern Japan’s new and improved technological identity. It wasn’t until recently that he decided the business world was beginning to take its toll on him. By now he had already run the company longer than his father, and the younger generation was quicker and more computer-savvy. However, age and experience have a lot to give in the realm of higher education. Therefore, Nagoya is in the process of officially passing on the legacy to his eldest son, Keisuke (33), while he gets more involved in the educational side of life. He recently has applied to Ouran as a teacher last year and has been getting more personal satisfaction from it.

Keisuke handles about 70% of the work that Nagoya was once doing, however, he still retains a surmountable paycheck since he is a founder and an extremely large investor. For the most part he attends a few board meetings and makes executive decisions. The rest of the work goes into his son’s hands. Nagoya also has two fraternal twin daughters that attend High School: Ayumi & Fuyutsuki (Grade 3, who look and act nothing alike). He has a younger son who’s also in High School by the name of Daisuke (Grade 1). His wife, Fusako (52), often minds the house and social gatherings, but often flies overseas a lot to do a lot of international translation. Now that the children are ‘older’, Fusako’s gotten more involved in the business world while Nagoya’s been declining. The change has actually been working wonders for their marriage, which was becoming a total wreck a few years back. They also have one grandchild by the name of Rikka (6), and another one on the way.