Dieter’s Birthday Party 2001. Tokyo, Japan.

 January 15, 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…

That far away white object is Mount Fuji… now I wish I had a better zoom on my camera…
After a short afternoon visit to Kimoto, I went back down to Trader Vic’s and saw that the party preparation was under way…
Mr. Funayama supervising the posters being put up
Dieter Klein, approximately 20 years ago.
A poster on the side-wall with pictures of my mother, taken a few years back.
The hard workers – Moto Nagai and Ken Funayama
… Posters all up, tables all set.
Relax time for Mr. Nagai
… and Renee Purro with Mr. Funayama
At around 6:45pm, the guests started showing up…
Mr. C.E. Lin chats with Ms. Minato and Ms. Ando.
Andreas, Amely, and Trevor.
Mr. Suetake from Screen
The two Presidents of CGS, America and Germany
Kimoto’s ORIS Specialists