That’s great that it’s been confirmed to be our Will! I wanted to get down there when they were doing the excavation, I was invited to have been there in attendance with Medway Council and the leading Will Adams researcher. However ‘Hirado’ is apparently horrendously difficult to get to though, and couldn’t get enough days off work at that time.
Medway did try to forge greater links with our twin cities Yokosuka and Ito during the late 1990’s/early 2000’s, after it became a unitary authority. I first went to Yokosuka and Ito on civic duty for then Gillingham Borough Council on behalf of Mayor Dai Liyanage.
Then we had the construction of Ito Way and Yokosuka Way, and the Honourable Pilot where I was part of the opening team, given the job for my Japanese language skills! I drew one of their first chalk boards at the bar in Japanese, it was supposed to look cool and also was in case Japanese workers from companies in the business park would go there. I was regarded as one of their special staff, they thought I was the top dog. I lasted in the job a month before saying “oh bollocks” to a customer over some bread and butter! I knew there was no coming back from that, I didn’t even bother seeing the manager, after I said it I just kept walking past the kitchen, out the back door and walked home. Been hiding here in Japan ever since!
UTG!
Btw Will Adams would definitely have been a Gills fan!
