Harry at the National Institute for Materials Research (NIMS), Japan

This is a differential thermal analyser and a few other thermal analysis techinques. This machine was knocked off the bench by the April 2011 earthquake	This shows the inside of the DTA, including the thermogravimetric balance
A furnace including a direct cryogenic-quenching unit.	A valve based ion gauge to assess the vacuum
The ion guage in operation	Yuki Murakami (NIMS) showing the shelf which was knocked down by the earthquake. The shelf is now secured to the roof, and has flexible transparent windows
Scanning electron microscope at the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba	This is a glow discharge analyser at NIMS with a depth resolution in nanometres
The sideways spatial resolution is as illustrated here on an 2 cm square	A dessicator with electronic humidity controller
	A high-temperature coating system
Hideyuki Murakami's desk at the laboratory
The rhenium sputter target	Minature tensile test (or creep test) specimen
This is a small, home made, thermomechanical simulator for the minature tensile tests. The strain is measured using a laser.	The minature samples are spark eroded from a solid block
	Struggling scientist
	A memorandum of understanding between Germany and Japan on coatings research
Hideyuki Murakami's students presented their work to Harry
The environment near NIMS in Tsukuba
This is NIMS
Harry, Tomonori Kitashim a and Yuki Murakami in Akihabara (Electronics City) in Tokyo	Full of people....
..... and every imaginable electronic and electrical component.	It is possible to lose track of time ...
Us on television.	The Cambridge mafia meet at an Indian restaurant in Tokyo
Yuki and Seiji Kuroda, both from NIMS	Takayuki Kurimura (MHI) and Akirhiro Matsuzaki (JFE)
Koichi Murakami (who submitted his Ph.D. after two years of research in Cambridge, now at IHI) and Tomonori Kitashima of NIMS	Yuki, Hidetoshi Fujii (JWRI, Osaka) and Osamu Umezawa (Yokohama Naional University)
From left to right, Tomoniro, Kazutoshi Ichikawa (Nippon Steel), Harry, Yoshiuki Saito (Waseda University), Toshihiko Koseki (Tokyo University) and Yoko Mitarai (NIMS)
Koichi invented a new drink, Soju mixed with Lassi. It was a hit.	Aarti is a form of whorship
Located in Tsukuba, this statue of the Buddha is approximately 120 m tall	Just the index finger is 7 m long
Takayuki Kurimura and Harry looking quite tall
Harry and Hideyuki Murakami, who was our host	The statue weighs 4000 tonnes. This is a scale model of the head
	Guiness book of world records
	Classical bronze bell. In asian countries, the bell is struck to ring.

	Poppies
Relief on a larger bronze bell	This is where the bell should be struck
Inscriptions on the bronze bell	For incense
The statue as it ages, will be covered in patina, and become green. Patina is a corrosion product on bronze, but it actually protects it from further corrosion	The is the steel structure which supports the head of the Buddha
And the hand	The next sequence shows the construction stages
	It is possible to gather flowers from the garden around the Bhuddha
This is a gold Buddha donated by the king of Thailand	This contains some remains of Sakyamuni Buddha
A buddha donated by Burma	The bronze on the statue is clad on to the steel and concrete structure, which itself is a museum. The bronze pieces are welded together
	Buddha was born in northern India
Gold leaf can be attached to the statue
	A stage in the formation of the patina
A self-portrait	A meeting in Tsukuba with Drs Takayuki Kurimura (left), Hideaki Takatani and Satoru Zenitani.
Mathew and Harry have project with MHI, but this is the first physical meeting.	MHI then took Harry to a vegetarian restaurant in Tsukuba

Kazutoshi Ichikawa and Harry

Photographs courtesy of Hideyuki Murakami	Photographs courtesy of Hideyuki Murakami
Photographs courtesy of Hideyuki Murakami	Photographs courtesy of Hideyuki Murakami
Photographs courtesy of Hideyuki Murakami