The purpose of the visit was to propose two new rail technologies for full scale trials at Nippon Steel/Sumitomo metals, the concepts originating from a project sponsored by CBMM in Brazil.

Inside Asian airline cabin, flying from Heathrow London to Incheon South Korea and then Fukuoka in Japan for a meeting at Nippon Steel/Sumitomo Metals |

Inside Asian airline cabin |

Inside Asian airline cabin |

Inside Asian airline cabin |

The cabin has doors! |

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In lounge at Incheon |

Big news in Japan and Korea |

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This is for the short flight from Seoul to Fukuoka |

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Train tickets from Fukuoka airport to Hikata, followed by Shinkansen to Fukuoka city |

The Yawata Steel works in Japan was the oldest there, preserved here as a museum. |

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More than 100 years old, beautiful photograph, taken with artistic flair, by Harry |

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Arunim Ray, closer to heaven |

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Inside the blast furnace |

Inside the blast furnace |

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Tuyeres |

Pouring of the iron |

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… seems to be frozen in time |

Arunim Ray dressed for steel |

The convertor in the background |

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The convertor where blast furnace iron is treated with oxygen to convert it to steel |

A giant Arunim dominating the steel plant |

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Modern torpedo car |

The A-team |

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The visit to the historical iron works was after Arunim’s talk, and he simply fell asleep afterwards. |

The local iron brew |

Fukuoka from the hotel window |

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Inside the subway in Japan |

Pretending to work |