Hello,

This was an action packed day that started out with a visit to the head offices of Brother, the electronics company. We watched a number of videos including one interesting one that showed the history of the company including how the company started out making machines to create traditional straw hats almost 100 years ago. Here is a picture of everyone watching a more contemporary sewing machine following a computer input pattern to stitch the black outline of a Winnie the Pooh image. It created a lot of attention as you can see in this picture:

From there we visited a couple of newspaper companies: Asahi Shimbun and Chunichi Shimbun. Here is a picture taken outside of the Asahi Shimbun  office:

After that we had another meeting and then the different teams had a meeting with the Stage Manager to discuss the staging of their performance during the big event on Sunday.

Finally there was a staff party introducing everyone to the TV Aichi staff. Some even came out from Tokyo just for the meeting. It was great to meet everyone and the cosplayers got a great reception.

For those who hunger for more photos I will provide a link to the Japanese TV Aichi blog. You may not be able to read the writing but there are loads and loads of pictures of the various events and they are all clickable . Check it out here!

More for you tomorrow,

Ed