In the interview Akira Kasahara discusses the following topics: family background and childhood; the University of Tokyo; his interest in astronomy and meteorology; the Japanese Meteorological Society; his research in numerical weather prediction and later tropical cyclones; his work at Texas A & M University, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), with the Atomic Energy Commission at the Argonne National Laboratory, Courant Institute, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the University of Stockholm; his use of computers as early as in the late 1950s; and other physicists mentioned include Sigekata Syono, Syukuro Manabe, Jule Charney, George Platzman, Harry Wexler, Herbert Riehl, Robert Simpson, Joe Smagorinsky, Phil Thompson, Warren Washington, Yale Mintz, Akio Arakawa, Takashi Sasamori, Bob Richtmyer, Will Kellogg, Dan Rex, Joe Tribbia, and John Freeman.