I (Per) was invited to m17n2000, the Fourth International Symposium on Multilingual Information Processing, in Tskukuba, Japan. I arrived Japan Thursday, March 23, 2000, and left Tuesday, March 28. On Monday March 27, I presented a talk on JEmacs.

Most nights I was the guest of Masatoshi Suwabe, who I had met when he visited San Francisco in December 1998. He lives in Kashiwa, a suburb North-East of Tokyo. I stayed one night at the Tsukuba Daiichi Hotel Epochal.

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Masatoshi's home
House in Kashiwa
Ueno park
Shrine in Ueno park
Ueno park, South view
Shrine
Akihabara
Imperial palace
Hibiya park
Kabuki theatre

Saturday night I stayed at the Tsukuba Daiichi Hotel Epochal.

Tsukuba view
Tsukuba view

On Sunday, I left the conference early. I took the bus into Tokyo, meeting Masatoshi at Tokyo station.

Asakusa Temple
Asakusa Temple
Asakusa Temple
Asakusa Temple
Harajuku
National stadium
National stadium
Wedding complex
Cherry blossoms
Cherry blossoms
Shinjuku station
Kashiwa station
Top of Sogo
National museum
Cherry blossoms
Science museum
Ueno park