Picked up some people in APU...
Bye bye Beppu...
Pipo's sandwich Vs. my sandwich... Mine is the basic one...
The straight joining Honshu and Kyushu...
Never get bored of Japanese landscapes...
Nor of Japanese food...
After the first 6 or 7 hours, started to get bored...
Some preparation work...
Some "tease the Ecuadorian guy"...
Simon and the edible shrimp thingie...
Bus madness...
Finally arrived, after only 16 hours... Michael and Alex received us...
Some work to warm up...
Nice rooms, better than most hotels I've been in Japan...
Next day, familiarization with the environment...
Was so damn cold that the tears in the eyes of the fish were frozen...
Basically our whole week was devoted to visit companies, sit in press rooms for company presentations, make the tourist's company tour, and spend time in a bus... We did that the whole day and worked at night... Eventually had one or 2 beers...Press rooms...
NIght work...
Productive bus time...
Eating moments...
At ICETT, our hosts...
Waste treatment center... It was unnaturally clean, and smelled like a flower field...
Landfill... Where were the scavengers? Maybe that's the difference between developed and "developing"...
Horticultural school...
At the chair factory...
Cup Noodle factory!!!!
Wastewater treatment facility...
At Mitsubishi petrochemical...
At Yokkaichi university...
At JSR, another petro-chemical... for some reason, many companies don't allow to take pictures... Probably they are afraid of us copying their billion dollars hundreds of square meter facilities by taking a few pics...
At Sharp... of course no pictures...
The Governor of Mie prefecture greeted us...
Last day, our result's presentation and bye bye...
Farewell, never come back again!
The endless trip back home:The Chinese mafia controlled the game...
Polidistorted sleeping habits...
Positive outcome: our brotherhood relationships strengthened, among all of us...
I've discovered a new hobby: to dress up like a factory worker...
Other impressions:
Amaterasu also smiles in Yokkaichi...
Graffitti...
Me, asking for a favor to Don Edgardo d'Imatti, in the wedding of his daughter; he cannot say no... But maybe one day, that may never arrive, he will ask me back for a favor as well...
The town called Ano!!!
Mario and Luigi!!!
Incredibly, Rapha made me look good in this picture...
