Harry's in Japan, November 2003

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Professor Kouichi Maruyama, Professor Purmensky and Dr Igarashi
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Tokyo at night.
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Tokyo
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Taj Indian restaurant.
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The team, courtesy of Professor Matsuo, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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Hotel Miyako, Tokyo.
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The subway train.
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Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 123 committee on heat-resistant steels.
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Beautiful steel-infrastructure for a multi-storey building under construction in Tokyo.
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My computer.
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Dinner with Nobuhiro Fujita and Manabu Takahashi, Nippon Steel Corporation.
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Bullet train, Tokyo Station.
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Train cleaners, ready for next arrival.
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Steel Pentograph support.
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Visit to Matsushima, Sendai, courtesy of Kouichi Maruyama.
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Traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
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Japanese maple leaf.
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The first two symbols stand for Metallurgy. The sign means the Department of Metallurgy. At Tohoku University. The oldest metallurgy in Japan.
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Department of Materials Science, Tohoku University.
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Department of Materials Processing, Tohoku University.
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Sueng Hwan Park and Professor Hiroyuki Kokawa, Tohoku University. Sueng presented a lecture on friction stir welding of steel, to be followed by a demonstration.
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Friction-stir welding machine.
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The tip of the steel tool.
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Friction stir-weld, butt joint between aluminium plates.
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Friction stir-weld, butt joint between aluminium plates.
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The hole at the end is where the operation terminated. Made at Tohoku University.
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Japanese tea ice-cream.
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Tourist attraction, about 160 m high, in Sendai
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Inside the giant statue.
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Inside the giant statue.
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The sight of Sendai from inside the giant statue.
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Inside the statue.
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Professor Tadao Watanabe, Tohoku University.
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.... with Koichi Kawahara
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Device to produce a magnetic field of about 1.6 Tesla
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Device to produce a magnetic field of about 1.6 Tesla
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Device with supeconducting magnets to produce a field of about 6 Tesla
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Corrosion experiments.
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Sendai Airport, designed with steel.
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Sendai Airport, designed with steel.
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Sendai Airport, designed with steel. Inside the terminal.
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Sendai Airport, designed with steel. Inside the terminal.
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Sendai Airport, designed with steel. Inside the terminal.
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Sendai Airport, designed with steel. Inside the terminal.
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Flight from Sendai to Nagoya.
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All Nippon Airlines.
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Daido Steel, Nagoya.
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Daido Steel, Nagoya.
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Lecture on Hard Bainite.
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Hydrogen fuel cell.
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Fuel cell and hydrogen storage device based on Ti/Zr Laves phase. Occupies a tenth of the volume of the gas phase.
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Toy car fitted with hydrogen fuel cell and storage device.
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Toy car fitted with hydrogen fuel cell and storage device.
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Turbo-charger. The melting temperature is about 1500°C, service temperature about 900°C.
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Noda Toshiharu (General Manager), Harry, Shigeki Ueta and Toshiharu Shimizu, at Daido Steel, Research & Develpment.
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Nagoya Airport
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Nagoya Airport
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Nagoya Airport
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Flight from Nagoya, landed in Narita Tokyo.
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Flight from Nagoya, landed in Narita Tokyo.