The first "work" day in Japan. We are slowly adjusting to timedifference, and all the other things that are different. Though fully adjusting probably takes more than the week we have at our disposal. This morning we tried Japanese breakfast - Miso soup, Fermented soy beans, fish and sea-weeds. Yummy, but very different.

The program started with a visit at Fujitsu at their new complex, solution square. A highly modern building, with a beautiful, very human friendly work-environment. We were received by Corporate VP Kazuo Miyata and President and CEO of Fujitsu applications Jun Watanabe. After a short trip in the building, where we got to see Fujitsu's implementation and experiments with TPS in practice, we were given a presentation and had an interesting exchange about agile and TPS in software development.

The day ended i a much more informal, but not less interesting way. We met with a group of members of XPJUG and spend a couple of hours with mutual presentations and exchanging ideas. After that we had a great Japanese dinner with lots of discussions and laughter in a cozy restaurant. Thanks to all the nice people from XPJUG to receive us so warmly.

Kampai! In the picture is Kenji Hiranabe, Author, Translator and much more and Tsutomy Yasui, who helped arrange the evening

By Bent Jensen