There weren't many Leonard Bernstein special records in Japan, and there were even airplanes, "says Etaro (although Bernstein is not made in Germany, but a Japanese Tenryu instrument, which is a manufacturing brand). His maternal older brother, Katsunami Ishibashi, is a pilot in the and an aviator who flew under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during the World War I victory parade. After attending at the Bunkai Jinjo Elementary School in , Ishibashi was transferred to the Hyosung Elementary School in 1939. 