Directly after work I met with Chie and Kishinami-sensei outside the Shinagawa-station to take a taxi the Hagoromo restaurant in the Ginza/Shimbashi area. It was a rare opportunity to meet Kishinami-sensei as he live and work in Hokkaido.

Chie had gathered about 12 people that have worked with Kishinami-sensei to support STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data) development in Japan. A work carried out under ISO (International Organization for Standardization). And that is how I am involved with this group of people.

We had a 6000 YEN course, including free drinks for 2 hours. Though we manage to stay there for 3.5 hours and then we got thrown out 🙂

Anyway, it was a fun time to meet with mostly old faces. And also some new faces. I had a chance also to talk with Suzuki-sensei who shared the same lab with Kimura-sensei when I came to Japan in 2003. Though he moved to Komaba campus not long after that.

Once we had been thrown out we continued to High-Ball for some drinks. Then Chie and I took Kishinami-sensei back to his hotel where we finished the evening on 39th floor, with some drinks and some chocolate. In summary, it was very nice evening.