Miyoko and Stephen met in Yokohama, Japan, when they were both studying Japanese at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. They lived one train stop apart and got to know each other during their morning train commute. They also shared a class together and talked to each other a great deal (even with friends sitting in between them), until they finally decided to go on a date to a charming local Hawaiian pancake shop, wherein Stephen locked himself in the bathroom by accident.