Leonardo Magalhaes Silvestre, Marcos Stuart (CBMM, Brazil) and Arunim Ray, Harry Bhadeshia (University of Cambridge) visited the Nippon-Sumitomo Steel plant in Fukuoka, Japan on the 25th of February 2015. Saw many familiar faces, including Kazutoshi Ichikawa and Teruhisa Okumura, both PT Group Members.

At Busan Gimhae Airport in South Korea |

On the way to Fukuoka in Japan |

Nice array of planes at Narita Airport in Japan |

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Met Arunim Ray at Narita, looking very relaxed and cool |

In a train with Leonardo (smiling in the background) from CBMM and Arunim Ray from Cambridge |

On the right is Marcos Stuart, Head of Technology, CBMM |

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In the bullet train (Shinkansen) to Fukuoka |

The train ticket |

Arunim using chopsticks on the day before his lecture |

Marcos and Leonardo |

Ohta and Arunim |

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Looking smart on the next day, on the way to Nippon-Sumitomo Steel |

Approaching the steel plant which began about 114 years ago |

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The audience for Harry’s lecture |

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Historical image of the steel plant |

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This was the original blast furnace |

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The original blast furnace |

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This is the room in the original Nippon Steel guest house where Emperor Hirohito stayed when he was touring Japan to boost morale after the second world war. |

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Emperor Hirohito |

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In the first class compartment of a train to the airport |

Arunim Ray checking in at Fukuoka Airport |