Tokyo, Japan

 January 14, 2001  Posted in Uncategorized

I flew out from Minneapolis on Saturday, 1/13/2001 to Tokyo, Japan.

The event is Dieter’s 60th birthday. Attendees from all over the world includes:

Toshifumi Arakawa, Takashige Suetake, Martin and Stephan Koller, Uwe Jacobson, Yoshio Nishina, Trevor Haworth, Andreas Kaemmerer, Amely Huebner, Rand Ridley, Kenichi Funayama, Motonori Nagai, Seiichi Nishikawa, Akio Kaneda, Katsushi Kaneda, Raymond Fung, Tatsuya Kawaguchi, Shoichi Takeda, my brother Kevin, and many, many more.

These are photos from the evening before the birthday celebration, on 1/14/2001.

The night is still young in Tokyo… at least outside my window in the Akasaka area
Motonori Nagai making wake-up calls for dinner
The four at the table, counterclockwise from top left: My second brother from Taiwan, Kevin, Mr. Nishina of Sekonics, Dieter Klein who needs no introduction, and Mr. Toshifumi Arakawa from Kimoto
Dieter Klein, soon-to-be birthday boy
Motonori Nagai from Kimoto
Kenichi Funayama from Kimoto
Stephan Koller
Mr. Yoshio Nishina from Sekonics
Suddenly I realized it has been about 4 years since I last saw Kevin… and it made me notice that I myself has grown older as well…
Trevor Haworth of CGS America
Andreas Kaemmerer of CGS Germany
… and his girlfriend Amely Huebner
Dieter and Mr. Nishina
Andreas arranging for Dieter’s present tomorrow
Rand Ridley of CGS Canada
Suddenly the cigar smoking STARTED… and continued on for the next few days…
Dieter with Stephan and Martin Koler
Amongst the smoke are the MMT (Metromedia Technologies) group who was supervising the installation of ORIS at their Japanese site.
Mr. Nishina and my mother had known each other for many years… here Dieter tries to emulate what mom usually does when she sees Mr. Nishina – Says Hello…
And then a kiss right on top!
Dieter with the director of Trader Vics in Asia, Mr. Renee Purro
Mr. Arakawa and Mr. Nagai of Kimoto Corporation

While most attendees went on after Trader Vic’s to a small Karaoke Bar, I went back to the hotel room and uploaded some of the pictures… since I got only my 64MB memory card, I am sure there will be more pictures to take TOMORROW.