Met Han Soo Kim and Nack Joon Kim at the Gimhe Airport in Pusan
Arrived at Narita Airport, ready to catch a train to Ueno
Skyliner is a fast train between Narita and Ueno (a station in Tokyo)
At the Tokyo Dome Hotel. The mobile phone is borrowed from Gimhe Airport in Korea, so that I could communicate in Japan
This is the view from the lift in the Tokyo Dome Hotel
The "Tokyo Dome" is a large arena where baseball is played under cover. It is surrounded by an amusement park.
A picture of me in the lift.
Professor Toshihiko Koseiki of Tokyo University and Kazutoshi Ichikawa (PT Group member) from Nippon Steel, meet Harry in the hotel.
We head to Ginza for the Indian Restaurant.
Harry is a Gujarati and amazingly, this restuarant had a Gujart Thali.
Manaubu Takahashi, Harry, Ichikawa, Professor Koseki and Nobuhiro Fujita at the end of the meal.
Professor Toshiko Koseki, Nobuhiro Fujita, Manabu Takahashi, Harry and Kazutoshi Ichikawa
On the next day (Sunday), Professor Koseki and Harry travel to Tsukuba Science City
We arrive early and have a doughnut and coffee before going on to the meeting.
At the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ) meeting
This is the President of ISIJ, Hiroshi Tomono
The awards ceremony begins
Ready for the presentations
The President, Hiroshi Tomono
This was the one minute speech, appreciation of the Honorary Membership
The twenty minute lecture on problems with the calculation of crystallographic texture
This is Professor Fujita, originally from Tokyo University.
He is famous for the design of the best ever creep resistant ferritic-steel, NF616 (N for Nippon Steel and F for Professor Fujita)
Harry with Professor Fujita
Professor Yasushi Sasaki, of GIFT POSTECH, Korea
Dr Susumo Tsukamoto of NIMS (PT group member)
Professor He Jicheng, the President of Northeastern University, who became an Honorary Member of ISIJ
Professor K. Sugimoto, famous for his work on TRIP steels
Near the Tokyo Dome
Harry's certificate
The schedule
Dr Shinichi Terashima (PT Group) of Nippon Steel arrives on Monday morning to take Harry to Nippon Steel
My badge
With Professor Tadashi Maki, Nippon Steel Fellow. I have known him since 1978
The audience for the "Bainite made simple" lecture
Ichikawa introduces Harry in Japanese
Group photograph, Manabu Takahashi, Harry, Professor Maki and Ichikawa
Nippon Steel also manufactures titatnium. The roof of this building is made of titanium
Old friends
A big party in the Tokyo Dome Hotel to celebrate the Cambridge Connections. Professor Hidetoshi Fujii (left, Osaka University), Professor Nagumo (Waseda University), Tomo Yokota (JFE) and Shinichi Terashima (Nippon Steel). All have been in Cambridge in the PT Group
Kazu Hase (JFE), Yuko Nomura (now disseminating Thermocalc, Dictra and Micress in Japan), Professor Toshihiro Tsuchiyama (Kyushu University), all PT Group members
Professor Koseki, Professor Saito (Waseda University) and Shinichi Suzuki (JFE). Professor Koseki is an Honorary PT Group member - the others again have been members of the Group
Susumo Tsukamoto (who recently declined to review a paper for Harry), Professor Osamu Umezawa (Yokohama National University) and Akihiro Matsuzaki (JFE), all PT Group members
Professor Nobutaka Yurioka, who has had a huge influence on our research on welding.
Yuko makes a presentation to Harry
All the food was vegetarian, beginning with the sweets
Professor Yurioka talking about Harry
Professor Nagumo, talking about Harry
The complete gang, but Yuko had to leave early and hence is missing
The sign outside the party, explaining that this is a party for Harry Sensei
