Guillermo Larese roia, 42, from Argentina, and Keiko Iwasaki, 31, met a decade ago in Japan after one of them put a message about swapping Japanese and Spanish lessons in a free publication.
Their teacher-student relationship soon turned to one of friendship and, in the end, marriage.
Born in Buenos Aires to a Spanish mother and Italian father, Guille (short for Guillermo) first arrived in Japan in 1994 to learn aikido but went back to Argentina for a couple of years. He returned to Japan in 1996 to polish his aikido skills and eventually progressed to the level of black belt.