Japan 2004 – Day 2 (The Gala and The Hanezawa Garden)
Japanese people are continually showing their respect for others. Japan Telecom employees did this on a grand scale on Tuesday evening. There have been some changes in ownership of the company and a new president was to be introduced this evening to 1,600 of the company’s customers and business partners. I was fortunate to be […]
Japan Update
Part 2 was just posted and there are another half dozen or so installments coming. Please ignore the postings for days 3-5 as they are preliminary copies of prior postings. I will be updating them over the weekend. The photo gallery is updated with captions and you can find the latest here.
Japan 2004 – Day 2 (Conferences, Hakozaki, and The Gala)
There are 123 million people in Japan and ten percent of them live in one city — Tokyo. It is a magnificent place. Tokyo has many sections like all major cities of the world. My stay for the first two days of the trip was in Shinjuku. Homebase was at the Century Hyatt, nestled among […]
Konishiki (600 pound Sumo wrestler)
This is Konishiki-zeki (large one on the left) the famous Sumo wrestler I was honored to meet on a recent trip to Japan. If you would like to learn more about him you can read “The World According to Konishiki“. You might also want to visit his home page. I have another picture which shows […]
Sumo Training
A morning training session I was privileged to watch. The large one is Konishiki. If you want to know what he can eat in a day you may be interested to read “The World According to Konishiki“.
