Santiago stock exchange (Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago), Chile [May, 1998 Santiago, Chile] The centre of the city is similar to Japan’s big city, where were tall buildings and paved roads/streets, but simple pavement were here and there in…

The Andes Santiago, Chile [May, 1998 Santiago, Chile] The Andes rise to the east of the office of our distributor. They may be 13,000 – 16,000 ft high mountains and on their tops were covered with white snow. Santiago is in the basin locat…

Santiago, Chile [May, 1998 Santiago, Chile] He picked me up at the hotel and I was excited where he’d take me to. The place we arrived was Sushi restaurant. Oh no, the first food in South America, the first visit, was Japanese one like the…

Ministry of Interior (Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública), Santiago, Chile [May, 1998 Santiago, Chile] May, 1998, my first landing onto the South American Continent. It was Santiago International Airport, Chile. I was in our distr…

Inner court of the exhibition site (CeBIT), Hanover, Germany [March, 1998 Barcelona, Spain => Osaka, Japan] Some episodes happened again in this trip. Now time to go back to Osaka, Japan. I usually check in early because to get the aisle s…

Graffiti on the street wall (Barcelona, Spain) [March, 1998 Barcelona, Spain] Next day, Sunday, I was to have a meeting with our president in the afternoon after having lunch together. So sleeping was my plan in the morning. But a phone ca…

Barcelona, Spain [March, 1998 Barcelona, Spain] We didn’t get in the bar of the woman dancing in a bikini but got to drink in another bar. Just watching for free!? A clock showed passed 1:00 a.m. Summer time would come at 2:00 a.m. I would…

The statue of Christopher Columbus pointing America (Port of Barcelona) [March, 1998 Barcelona, Spain] The distributor meeting for 2 days was over. The dinner on the last day was taken each freely. The hotel for the meeting was located nea…

Flamenco（Barcelona, Spain） [March, 1998 Barcelona, Spain] The dinner on the first day was taken watching the Flamenco show. To watching the show was the first experience for me. The dance was originated in Andalusia in the south of Spain…

Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain [March, 1998 Barcelona, Spain] The planning and sponsorship of the meeting were on our company, and the conference room and meals were asked to be arranged by the distributor in the venue for the meeting. The…