Reflections Returning From Japan At 30,000 Feet

As always, I like to greet you with my smiling face, and this picture is when I got off the train 3 hours from Tokyo to go to the Sony factory.  However, that is not where I am now. I am flying back from Japan on an ASA flight to LAX.  Although I left at [...]

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Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It Off to Tokyo We Go

I woke up on Sunday morning and pulled back the shades on my 30th floor hotel room at the Hilton, and this is what I saw.  Tokyo stretching off into the distance.  It may look just a little bit smoggy, but it isn’t.  It is simply that the cloud cover is down low.  The air [...]

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And Now, A Week In Japan, Part II

As I described in Part I, I had a rather spectacular day golfing.  Thinking that the day was over, I was by my friend that we should visit the Rabbit Shrine.  Unfortunately, the summer festival was the week before.  Of course, I could not see the summer festival because the businesses were closed, and my [...]

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And Now, A Week In Japan, Part I

Here I am waiting for the ON Liner to Saitama-Shin Station.  I am waiting just infront of the Narita bus stations.  As can be seen in the picture below, it is number 7.  While, there is a bit of English on the LED sign, it is going to be te last of the English that [...]

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Back To Asia Pacific

This is a familiar site: I’m getting off of an airplane in an international terminal.  In this case, I’ve just landed in Narita Airport, Japan, and I’m on my way to Taipei. The longest time that I’ve ever been away from my wife is 25 days.  This is when I was with IBM in the [...]

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