Japan (日本) Week 1

As many of you may know, I am on a temporary assignment for my company here in Tokyo for 3 months.

I thought I'd do Blog updates as a way to keep anybody who is interested in knowing what's going on over here and a few of my adventures with some pics.

I left on Wednesday and landed Thursday evening. From the airport (Narita) I took a bus to the Tokyo Hilton where I met Jun (Country Manger) and Hada san (Cardiac Manager). We went over the agenda – we are going to be super busy and all over Japan, including the island of Okinawa.

I tried not to sleep on the flight (knowing it would be evening), big mistake – I was gassed.

The apartment is not bad at all – Basically two 15 x 12 ft rooms (one the bedroom and the other the living room and kitchen. All the toilets over hear have a washlett (which is like a bidet) – there are some very interesting spraying actions accompany it.

Another weird thing is that you may notice that the shower has not shower curtain and the tub’s spicket is outside the tub – especially the whole room is one big shower – showering is a great adventure.

Jun and I met for lunch on Saturday where he filled me in on the overall picture for the Japanese market and all the Teleflex business. He was also kind enough to show me a nearby electronic store – Amazing – 8 massive Best Buys size floors with everything you can imagine (I’ll have to send a picture in the future) and a massive bookstore (12 floors each the size of Barnes and Noble) that had a floor of English books, he also showed me an enormous department store where I can find virtually anything I need.

Tokyo reminds me a little of downtown Honolulu, except it’s like the size of 50 of them together and there are more Japanese and I’m the only white guy :).