Kazunobu Seto and his wife, Robin, met in his hometown of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in 2004.
Robin, from Thunder Bay, Ontario, was a teacher on a one-year contract at an English conversational school in Kanazawa. They met at a sports club they had both been using.
They dated for about six months, got engaged and soon after moved to Dalian, China, where Kazu (short for Kazunobu) was posted for his job.